Killing and Being Killed: Bodies in Battle. Perspectives on Fighters in the Middle Ages
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What bodily experiences did fighters make through their lifetime and especially in violent conflicts? How were the bodies of fighters trained, nourished, and prepared for combat? How did they respond to wounds, torture, and the ubiquitous risk of death? The articles present examples of body techniques of fighters and their perception throughout the Middle Ages. The geographical scope ranges from the Anglo-Scottish borderlands to Central Europe through the Mediterranean world. This larger framework enables the reader to trace the similarities and differences of the cultural practice of "killing and being killed" in various contexts. Preface 7 Killed and Being Killed: Perspectives on Bodies in Battle in the Middle Ages - an Introduction / Jörg Rogge 9 "The Goths Drew Swords Together": Individual and Collective Acts of Violence by Gothic Warlords and their War Bands / Guido M. Berndt 15 The Torture of Bodies in Byzantium After the Riots (Sec. IV-VIII) / Bogdan Petru-Maleon 43 "One man slashes, one slays, one warns, one wounds": Injury and Death in Anglo-Scottish Combat, c. 1296 - c. 1403 / Iain MacInnes 61 Willing Body, Willing Mind: Non-Combatant Culpability According to English Combatant Writers, 1327-77 / Trevor R. Smith 79 Body Techniques of Combat: The Depiction of a Personal Fighting System in the Fight Books of Hans Talhofer (1443-1467 CE) / Eric Burkart 109 Six Weeks to Prepare for Combat: Instruction and Practices from the Fight Books at the End of the Middle Ages, a Note on Ritualised Single Combats / Daniel Jaquet 131 The Body of the 'Condottiero' A Link Between Physical Pain and Military Virtue as it was Interpreted in Renaissance Italy / Giulia Morosini 165 Two Kinds of War? Brutality and Atrocity in Later Medieval Scotland / Alastair J. Macdonald 199 Logistics and Food Supply in the 'Crònica' of Ramon Muntaner / Judith Mengler 231 Summary and Conclusions: Silent Men and the Art of Fighting / Dominik Schuh 251 Contributors 267
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