LISBON MEDIEVAL CULTURE AND WAR CONFERENCE Spaces, Images, Mentalities 22 24 June 2017 Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa Thursday, 22 June 9h15 Opening session 9h45-10h15 Cross-cultural chivalry: hostages, captives and prisoners-of-war in 12th century Latin Christendom and the Crusades Matthew Bennett (keynote speaker) 10h15-10h30 Coffee break
10h30 Session 1: Cities and war 10h30-10h50 Everyday life inverted: captures of cities and their social repercussions in the Eastern Mediterranean (9 th -11 th c.) Marilia Lykaki 10h50-11h10 Townsmen at War: Girding Up the Spirit Steven Isaac 11h30-11h50 The clashing of weapons, the flames of the burning, the ruins and fall of houses, and many other fearful things : Urban combat in late-medieval English rebellions Alexander Hodgkins 11h30-11h50 The Medieval City as a Battlefield: Urban Warfare in Fifteenth-Century Castile Ekaitz Etxeberria 11h50-12h30 Debate 12h30-14h00 Lunch time 14h00 Session 2: Culture and war 14h00-14h20 Mentalities of War: The Battle of Covadonga in History and Myth David Arbesú 14h20-14h40 Le Roman de la Rose intertwining ars bellandi and ars amandi Sabina Madgearu 14h40-15h00 The influence of the stars and the intervention of demons on wars: an insight into the Liber Introductorius of Michael Scot Eleonora Andriani
15h00-15h20 Filip of Cleves and his treaty «art de guerroyer» (1520): a testimony of the late medieval art of war Philippe Bragard 15h20-16h00 Debate 16h00-16h15 Coffee break 16h15 Session 3: Weaponry and war equipment 16h15-16h35 Weapons and Military Equipment in Sicilian Households: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Mark Aloisio 16h35-16h55 Weapons and tactics of the guanches warriors Dario Testi 16h55-17h15 Debate 17h15-17h30 Coffee break 17h30-17h50 How the Portuguese and Persians Defeated Suleyman the Magnificent, while the Rest of Europe Kept Him Busy Kelly DeVries 18h00 Closing
Friday, 23 June 9h00 Session 4: Organisation, command and logistics 9h00-9h20 The Combat Potential of Byzantine Citizens in Arms Christos G. Makrypoulias 9h20-9h40 Between water and stone: the Provençal and Apulian coasts in the Angevin strategies of attack and defense Domenico Matteo Frisone 9h40-10h00 Command of army in late medieval Bologna Daniele Bortoluzzi 10h00-10h20 Vlad Ţepeş, his military campaign against the Ottoman Empire in 1462, and the forging of a Romanian national identity Cameron Smith 10h20-11h00 Debate 11h00-11h10 Coffee break 11h10 Session 5: Warfare and religious conflicts 11h10-11h30 Even More Heads - Head Taking in the Latin East 1097-1192 Ian Wilson 11h30-11h50 Was the Siege and Conquest of Alcacer do Sal a Crusade? Lucas Villegas-Aristizabal
11h50-12h10 For the remission of their crimes: The military service of Portuguese criminals in North Africa (1415-1471) Paulo Dias 12h10-12h30 Debate 12h30-14h00 Lunch time 14h00 Session 6: Body and soul 14h00-14h20 Fighting for Salvation in Romanesque Art and Thought Elizabeth Pugliano 14h20-14h40 Having God on Your Side: Religiosity and the personal faith of English and Scottish warriors, c.1332-c.1357 Iain MacInnes 14h40-15h00 Armors' Afterlives: The Late-Medieval Martial Body in the Early Modern Imaginary Chassica Kirchhoff 15h00-15h20 Debate 15h20-15h30 Coffee break 15h30 Session 7: War and manuscripts 15h30-15h50 National Identity, Language, and War in the Long Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Manuscripts Trevor Russell Smith
15h50-16h10 The Emperor s New Fight-Book: Perception and Influence of the Fight-Book Genre in Maximilian I s Freydal Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis 16h10-16h30 The Devil among the Teutonic Knights: Spiritual Armour in the Struggle against the Heathen in Late Medieval Prussia Alan V. Murray 16h50-17h00 Coffee break 17h00 Session 8: Protagonists at war (Org.: Kyle C. Lincoln; Sponsor: American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain) 17h00-17h20 Leadership culture in the thirteenth-century Latin West: some preliminary observations Simon Barton 17h20-17h40 The Conquest of Alcácer-do- Sal, 1217; the monk, the bishop and the pope s proviso Jonathan Wilson 17h40-18h00 His Name Was Martín Magnus: Archbishop Martín López de Pisuerga of Toledo (r.1192-1208), War (Both Holy and Not) and Peace (Both Holy and Not) in the Late Twelfth Century Kyle C. Lincoln 18h20 Pause
18h25-18h55 The military culture of the Portuguese nobility in the late Middle Ages João Gouveia Monteiro (keynote speaker) 19h00 Closing 20h30 Conference Dinner Saturday, 24 June Visit to a museum with a medieval military collection. Tapestries of Pastrana, late 15th century, Tournai, Flanders, Museo Parroquial de Tapices de Pastrana, Pastrana, Spain.