Conference Programme

Battle and Bloodshed: Representations of war in the Middle Ages

9:30 - 10:30: Registration and coffee

10:30 - 10:45: Welcome Address: Professor Peter Ainsworth

10:45 - 12:45: Session 1

The importance of being harnest: armour, heraldry and recognition in the mêlée
Ralph Moffat (University of Leeds)
'Armoyeries des seigneurs ventelloient au vent':
Visualising French Armies on
the Move in a Book IV Manuscript of Jean Froissart's Chroniques
Katariina Närä (University of Sheffield)
Images of War and Warfare or Some Observations on Practicing for War in Late Medieval England (13th-15th c.)
Ivelin Ivanov (University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria)
Arab visions of the battlefield of Hattin
Aya Espere-Sakal (University of Strasbourg, France)

12:45 - 13:45: Lunch

13:45 - 15:15: Session 2

The two claimants and their champions: war in Brittany in words and images in Book I of Froissart’s Chronicles
Valentina Mazzei (University of Sheffield)
Guts, Gore and Glory: the depiction of wounds sustained in battle in medieval German literary texts
Rachel Kellett (Independent Scholar)
Cenra to Campe: Battle-Scene Ambiguity in the Old English 'Judith'
Jena Webb (National University of Ireland Galway)

15:15 - 15:45: Coffee and biscuits

15:45 - 16:45: Session 3

Intratextual depictions of violence in Floriant et Florete
Helen Neat (University of Nottingham)
Changing the rules of the game at half-time: Chaucer and the Gawain-poet against aggression
Ben Parsons (University of Leicester)

16:45 - 17:00: Break

17:00 - 18:00: Plenary

18:00 - 19:00: Wine Reception at the HRI

19:30 - late: Conference Dinner

9:30 - 10:30: Session 4

The Right not to Fight: The Hostis in the Medieval Kingdom of Aragon
Matthew Wells (University of Toronto, Canada)
Lesser nobility and army in the kingdom of Valencia during the later middle ages. Attitudes and behaviours beyond military service
Frederic Aparisi Romero, Vicent Royo Perez (University of Valencia, Spain)

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee and biscuits

11:00 - 13:00: Session 5

Contesting space - An analysis of the Wars of Thomond in Ireland
Lorna Moloney (National University of Ireland Galway)
Chios and Genoa: Social classes in war or co-existence?
Ioanna N. Koukounis (University of Birmingham)
The Treaty on the Establishment of Peace throughout Christendom in the context of late medieval peace treaty practices
Magda Schusterova, (London School of Economics/University of Frankfurt-am-Main)
A changing perception of war: the role of peace treaties from the tenth to the early thirteenth centuries
Jenny Benham (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)

13:00: Close - Lunch and coffee