Sessions organized by De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History

Thursday, 8 May: 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Session 168: Bernhard 210

Late Medieval Military History

Sponsor: De Re Militari and the Society for Military History
Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College in Maryland
Presider: Valerie Eads, School of Visual Arts

Practical Chivalry II: The Training of Horses for Tournaments and Warfare - Carroll Gilmor, Independent Scholar

Beyond Sieges: The "Minor" Military Encounters of Henry II of England - John D. Hosler, Univ. of Delaware

The Making of a Garter Knight: The Case of Sir Robert Umfraville (d. 1437) - A. Compton Reeves, Ohio Univ.

Friday, 9 May: 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Session 218: Bernhard 208

Topics in Medieval Military History: The Roman Balista Project

Sponsor: De Re Militari and the Society for Military History
Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College in Maryland
Presider: Bernard S. Bachrach, Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Presentation

Friday, 9 May: 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

De Re Militari Business Meeting - to be held in Bernard 208

Friday, 9 May: 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Session 349: Sangren 2201

Early Medieval Military History

Sponsor: De Re Militari and the Society for Military History
Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College in Maryland
Presider: Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State Univ.

Two Early Defense Systems of England - Edward E. Cox, Iowa State Univ.

No Vegetius? No Problem! Other Sources of Medieval Military "Doctrine" - Mark Vaughn, Univ. of Rhode Island

Sichelgaita of Salerno: Amazon or Trophy Wife? - Valerie Eads, School of Visual Arts

Saturday, 10 May: 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Session 410: Sangren 2219

Medieval Military Technology

Sponsor: De Re Militari and the Society for Miltary History
Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College in Maryland
Presider: Clifford J. Rogers, United States Military Academy

What Did Soldiers Wear at the Battle of Coutrai (1302)? - Kelly DeVries

Problems In Assessing the Protectiveness of Mail vs. Archery - Russ Mitchell, Independent Scholar

Learning to be a General: Henry Percy and Writing the Military Revolution - Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State Univ.

Saturday, 10 May: 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Session 519: Bernhard 210

Special Address: De Re Militari

Sponsor: De Re Militari, the Society for Military History, and Boydell & Brewer
Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College in Maryland, and Susan Dykstra-Poel, Boydell & Brewer
Presider: Kelly DeVries

Why War as Law Matters: Warrior-State Discourse in Comparative Perspective - Stephen Morillo, Wabash College

Respondent: Clifford J. Rogers, United States Military Academy

Sessions and papers dealing with Military History or Crusading

Thursday, 8 May
10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Sessions 1-60

Session 3: Valley III 312: Politics and Government in Late Medieval England

Sponsor: Society of the White Hart
Organizer: Douglas Biggs, Waldorf College
Presider: Douglas Biggs

"The Prince Is the Father of the King": The Letters of Edward, Prince of Wales, 1304-1305- Jeffrey S. Hamilton, Baylor Univ.

Edward III and State Formation - Clifford J. Rogers, United States Military Academy

The Political Character of the Appellant Movement - Nigel Saul, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London

How Lancastrian Were the Lancastrians? Politics and Principles at the Battles of Tewkesbury - Malcolm Mercer, Public Record Office, London

Session 24: Fetzer 1035: Clothing in Chaucer

Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest
Organizer: Norman D. Hinton, University of Illinois-Springfield
Presider: Laura F. Hughes

The Knight's Yeoman: A Reassessment - Kenneth J. Thompson, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (this paper examines Chaucer's Yeoman, analyzing his potential military background as well as his weaponry and other accoutrement)

Session 50: Bernhard 212: Medieval Western Martial Arts: Contextual Explorations of the Medieval Fighting Treatises I

Sponsor: Chivalry Bookshelf
Organizer: Annam ria Kovács, Chivalry Bookshelf
Presider: Annam ria Kovács

The Advice of Kings: Late Medieval Martial Training in Royal Literature - Stephen C. Hick, Independent Scholar

Demystification of the Spanish School of Swordsmanship - Ramon Martinez, Association for Historical Fencing

The Segno of Fiore dei Liberi: The Use of Symbolic Systems to Explain the Art of Arms - Bob Charron, St. Martin?s Academy

Session 56: Sangren 2212: Crusades and Crusaders I

Sponsor: Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
Organizer: Thomas F. Madden, St. Louis Univ.
Presider: Alfred J. Andrea, Univ. of Vermont

Families and Recruitment to the Order of the Temple in Languedoc in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries - Jochen G. Schenk, Univ. of Cambridge

Returning Crusaders and Twelfth-Century Expressions of Knightly Piety - Theodore D. Petro, Univ. of Cincinnati

The Development of the Concept of Crusading as an Act of Vengeance in Early Twelfth-Century Crusading Literature - Susanna A. Throop, Univ. of Cambridge

Thursday, 8 May
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Sessions 61-121

Session 114: Bernhard East Ballroom: Medieval Western Martial Arts: Contextual Explorations of the Medieval Fighting Treatises II

Sponsor: Chivalry Bookshelf
Organizer: Annamária Kovács, Chivalry Bookshelf
Presider: Annamária Kovács

The Knightly Art of Master Johannes Lichtnauer - Christian H. Tobler, Independent Scholar

"Ponderous, Cruel, and Mortal": A Review of Medieval Poleaxe Technique from Surviving Fighting Treatises of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries - Brian R. Price, Chivalry Bookshelf

Session 116: Sangren 2204: Islam and the Crusades

Sponsor: Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East and Ashgate Publishing
Organizer: Paul Crawford, Alma College
Presider: Paul Crawford

Fitna among Christians: Sultan al-Kamil and the Appointment of Coptic Patriarch Cyril III - Brian Ulrich, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

The Mamluks and Their "Infidel" Neighbors: Religious Conflict and Its Representation in Mamluk Architecture - Karen Mathews, Univ. of California-Santa Cruz

The Assassins - Telia McGuire, Univ. of Central Oklahoma

Thursday, 8 May
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sessions 122-180

Session 174: Sangren 2204: Crusades and Crusaders II

Sponsor: Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
Organizer: Thomas F. Madden, St. Louis Univ.
Presider: James M. Powell, Syracuse Univ.

The Role of the Crusades in the Sanctification of Louis IX - Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth College

Infidels, Heretics, or Allies? Oliver of Paderborn's and Jacques de Vitry's Perceptions of Eastern Christians and Islam - Jessalyn Bird, Northwestern Univ.

"People of Every Age, Sex, Condition, and Strength": Gregory IX's Use of Vow Redemption - Michael Lower, Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Friday, 9 May
10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Sessions 181-241

Session 189: Valley I 100: Clash of Cultures: A Roundtable

Sponsor: International Medieval Congress, Univ. of Leeds
Organizer: Axel E. W. Müller, Univ. of Leeds
Presider: Wendy R. Childs, Univ. of Leeds

In 1204, the forces of the Fourth Crusade sacked the world's greatest Christian city, Constantinople. The sack of Constantinople marks a true clash of cultures, as Catholic Christians and Orthodox Christians abandoned their fight against Islam to fight each other. This clash did not begin and end in 1204, however. In 2004, the IMC will reflect on clashes of cultures in the European Middle Ages by dedicating a thematic strand to "Clash of Cultures." This roundtable provides a forum for scholars with an interest in the topic to meet and discuss their work, with a view toward generating ideas for the 2004 Leeds Congress.

Session 238: Sangren 3217 : Late Medieval Town Institutions in Peace and War

Sponsor: Texas Medieval Association
Organizer: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State Univ.

Presider: L. J. Andrew Villahon, Univ. of Cincinnati

Judicial Officials and Judicial Procedures in Medieval Livonia - Peter Rebane, Pennsylvania State Univ.

A Shattered Circle: Eastern Spanish Urban Fortifications and Their Repair during the War of Two Pedros - Donald J. Kagay

Friday, 9 May
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Sessions 242-303

Session 244: Valley III 312: Warfare and Violence in the Middle Stages of the Hundred Years War

Sponsor: Society of the White Hart
Organizer: Douglas Biggs, Waldorf College
Presider: Geoffrey Martin, Univ. of Essex

Philip VI's Mortal Enemy: Robert of Artois and the Beginning of the Hundred Years War - Dana Sample, Univ. of Virginia's College at Wise

The Depiction of Warfare in Fourteenth-Century Anglo-French Chronicles - Christopher Given-Wilson, Univ. of St. Andrews

Debating Honor and Courage during the Middle Stages of the Hundred Years War - Craig D. Taylor, Univ. of York

Nobles and Nobility: Conflicts in Theory and Practice - David Green, Trinity College Dublin

Session 281: Bernhard 211: Communities and Identities in Medieval Iberia III: Frontier-Crossing and Communities at War

Sponsor: Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Organizer: James D'Emilio, Univ. of South Florida
Presider: James D'Emilio

From Mercenary to Crusader: The Career of Alvaro Perez de Castro (d. 1239) Reconsidered - Simon Barton, Univ. of Exeter

The Lara Family and the Frontiers of Thirteenth-Century Iberia - Simon Doubleday, Hofstra Univ.

The Tempering Fire: Leadership and Communities under Siege in Medieval Iberia - Marta van Landingham, Purdue Univ.

Session 287: Sangren 2201: Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Iberia I: Historiography

Sponsor: American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain
Organizer: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State Univ.
Presider: Donald J. Kagay

The Buried History of the Barbastro Crusade: The Papal-Spanish Axis, 1063-1064 - Paul E. Chevedden, American Univ. of Sharjah

The Language of Crusade in Papal Bulls to Spain: Barbastro to Las Navas de Tolosa - Theresa M. Vann, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library

Sancho IV and the War for the Strait of Gibraltar - Joseph F. O'Callaghan, Fordham Univ.

Friday, 9 May
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sessions 304-365

Session 315: Valley I 105: C. Warren Hollister's Henry I: A Roundtable Discussion

Organizer: Robert Babcock, Hastings College; Donald Fleming, Hiram College; and Robert Helmerichs, Independent Scholar
Presider: Robert Babcock

A roundtable discussion with Bernard S. Bachrach, Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities; David Crouch, Univ. of Hull; Judith Green, Queen's Univ., Belfast; Stephen Morillo, Wabash College; Frederick Suppe, Ball State Univ.; and Sally N. Vaughn, Univ. of Houston.

Session 354: Sangren 2301: Coins of the Crusaders: New Discoveries and Insights

Sponsor: Numismatists at Kalamazoo
Organizer: David Sorenson, Independent Scholar
Presider: Alan M. Stahl, Rice Univ.

Money and Finance on the Third Crusade: The Evidence of the Barbarossa Hoard - Alan V. Murray, Univ. of Leeds

The Sicilian Quarter-Dinar and the Economy of the Western Mediterranean (Ninth to Twelfth Century) - Sarah C. Davis, Univ. of Notre Dame

Dating the Edessa Coinage of Richard of Salerno- Robert D. Leonard Jr., Independent Scholar

Saturday, 10 May
10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Sessions 366-423

Session 374: Valley I 100: St. Anselm and the First Crusade

Sponsor: Texas Medieval Association
Organizer: Sally N. Vaughn, Univ. of Houston
Presider: Carolyn P. Schriber, Rhodes College

Was the First Crusade Just? Why Anselm Might Have Said No - Daniel P. Moloney, Univ. of Notre Dame

St. Anselm and the First Crusade: Who among Them Were His Friends, Allies, and Confidants - Sally N. Vaughn 

Sunday, 11 May
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Sessions 548-586

Session 560: Valley I 106 : Remembering the Crusades

Presider: Adam Knobler, College of New Jersey

Guillaume de Flaix: A Convert of 1096 - Jesse Sherwood, Univ. of Toronto

Crusade and Family Memory in Later Twelfth-Century Amboise: Bibliothèque nationale de France MS lat. 5513 and the Gesta Ambaziensium dominorum - Nicholas L. Paul, Trinity Hall, Univ. of Cambridge

Reynald of Châtillon: A Different Breed of Crusader - Paul A. Sibbald, Alma College

Rogue Elephant of Christ: A Re-Examination of the Life of Reynald of Châtillon in Response to the Writings of Barbara Hamilton - Robert Fuqua, St. Louis Univ

Session 561: Valley I 107: Ofermod and Over-Reading: New Interpretations of The Battle of Maldon

Organizer: Robin Waugh, Wilfred Laurier Univ., and James Weldon, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
Presider: Robin Waugh and James Weldon

No Middle Ground: Heroic Ethos in Y Gododdin, The Battle of Maldon, and The Song of Roland - G. J. Moffatt, Univ. College of the Fraser Valley

Maldon's Suffering Soldiers - Stephen J. Harris, Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst

Byrtnoth's Complaint - Christopher Williams, Florida International Univ.

New Interpretations of The Battle of Maldon: A Response - George Clark, Queen's Univ., Kingston

Sunday, 11 May
10:30 a.m.-12 noon
Sessions 587-625

Session 600: Valley I 107: The Reign of Alfonso XI, 1312-1350

Organizer: Nicolás Agrait, Fordham Univ.
Presider: Nicolás Agrait

That Was Not in the Agreement: The Castillian-Portuguese Border War of 1336-1339 - Cynthia L. Chamberlin, Univ. of California-Los Angeles

Alfonso XI and the Discourse on Chivalric Monarchy: The "Orden de la Banda" - Jesús D. Rodríguez-Velasco, Univ. of California-Berkeley

El Rey Llamó Su Mesnada: Military Vocabulary in the Chronicles of Alfonso Onceno - Francisco Gago-Jover, College of the Holy Cross

Session 623: Bernhard 213: The Fourth Crusade and the Military Orders

Sponsor: Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
Organizer: Theresa M. Vann, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
Presider: Theresa M. Vann

The Motivations of the Hospitallers and Templars in Their Involvement in the Fourth Crusade and Its Aftermath - Helen J. Nicholson, Cardiff Univ.

From hospital to Hospital: Female Hospitallers in Quercy - Myra Struckmeyer, Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

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