41st International Congress on Medieval Studies

May 4–7, 2006
 

For a complete schedule and other information, please see their website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/41congress/index.html

De Re Militari Sessions

Thursday, May 4th

10:00 am
Session 39: Warfare in the Early Middle Ages
Presider: John France
Room: Bernard 209

Vincent Franone - East German Slat Shields

Jonathan B. Himes - Rules and Rites of Military Conduct in the Old English Waldare

Carroll Gillmor - Charles the Bald’s Military Response to the Viking Incursions: A Reappraisal

12:00 pm

De Re Militari Business Meeting

Room: Bernard 209

1:30 pm

Session 112: Topics in Medieval Military History: The Martial Bottom Line: Military Finance in Later Medieval Spain
Presider: Carroll Gillmor
Room: Sangren 2212

Donald J. Kagay – Military Financing in the War of the Two Pedros

L.J. Andrew Villalon, Ransoming as a Fiscal Strategy in the Thirteenth-Century Iberian Wars

Nicolas Agrait – The Assembly and Finance of Navies in Fourteenth-Century Castile

3:30 pm

Session 156: Warfare in the High Middle Ages
Presider: Kelly DeVries
Room: Bernard 159

John France – Mercenaries and Capuchins in the Twelfth Century

Louis B. Haas – “For I Was Only Wounded by the Enemy’s Darts in Five Places, though My Horse Was Wounded in Fifteen”: Knightly Casualties in the Age of the Cruades

Mark Vaughn – John de Maidstone and Richard de Abingdon: King Edward I’s Logisticians

Ionne K. Lekea – The Battle of Apros and Its Impact on the Byzantine Warfare of the Early Fourteenth Century

 

Friday, May 5th

1:30 pm

Session 281: Journal of Medieval Military History Annual Lecture
Presider: To be Announced
Room: Valley II, 207

Richard Abels – Cultural Representation and the Practice of War in the Early and High Middle Ages

Response: John France

 

Other Sessions of Interest to Military Historians

 Thursday, May 4th

 10:00 am

Session 43: The Crusades I
Sponsor: Society for the Study if the Crusades and the Latin East
Bernard 213

J. Mark Nicovich - The Italian Maritime States: Naval Crusading as a State Enterprise, 1095-1124

Jaroslav Folda - Eurasian Artisitic Contacts: Crusaders, Mamluks, Mongols

Naomi Ruth Pitamber - Hybrid Devotion: The Melisende Psalter's Latin Prayers and Byzantine Icons

 

1:30 pm

Session 69: The Crusades II
Sponsor: Society for the Study if the Crusades and the Latin East
Valley II, 206

Vincent Ryan – Marian Patronage during the Fourth Crusade

David Perry – The Division of Relics after the Fourth Crusade: The Role of Tradition, Patronage, and Sticky Fingers

Walter K. Hanak – The Aborted Crusade of 1452-53 to Rescue Constantinople from the Turks

3:30 pm

Session 127: The Crusades III
Sponsor: Society for the Study if the Crusades and the Latin East
Valley II, 205

Craig M. Nakashian – Sword Association: Knightly Military Behavior on and off Crusade

Paul Crawford – Agent of the King? Romeus de Brugaria and the Templars

Sebastian Savlado – Templar Liturgy in Acre: A Proper Office for Saint Bernard

Friday, May 5th

10:00 am

Session 222: Origins of the Crusades, the Military Orders, and Mediterranean Warfare
Sponsor: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and the Texas Medieval Association
Valley II, 207

Paul E. Chevedden – The Council of Melfi (1059) and the First Crusade: The Norman Conquest of Islamic Sicily (1059-1091)

Paul Padilla – The Catalan Navy in the Late Medieval Period

Theresa M. Vann – Divine Intervention and Religious Warfare

Session 256: Medieval Western Martial Arts: Problems of Interpretation I
Sposnor: Higgins Armory Museum
Bernhard 213

Keith Alderson – Been There, Done That? Questions of Interpretation and Authority in the Doebringer Fechtbuch Nurnberger Handschrift GNM 3227a

Sean Hayes – The Martial Image in the Medieval Pedagogic Text

Session 268: Military Traditions in Early Celtic Lands
Sponsor: Department of History, Western Michigan University
Sangren 2303

Amber Handy – Life after the Fian: The Reintergration of the Young Irish Warrior into Society

Valerie Dawn Hampton – The Celtic Castle: A Comparison between Rushen Castle and Castle Trim

A. Jesse Heinsen – Viking Age Swords Distributed in Celtic Lands

1:30

Session 318: Dana Carleton Munro’s “The Speech of Pope Urban II at Clermont, 1095”: A Centennial Appreciation
Sponsor: Texas Medieval Association 

John Howe – Urban’s Promise of “Spiritual Rewards”: Dana Munro and Ecclesiastical History

Janus Moller Jensen – The Reception of Pope Urban II’s Speech at Clermont in Scandinvavia

Lawrence J. McCrank – Urban II’s Challenge to Islam in the West: Multiple Crusades and the Evolving Crusading Movement from Spain

3:30

Session 383: Medieval Western Martial Arts: Problems of Interpretation II
Sponsor: Higgins Armory Museum
Sangren 2301

Bob Charran – The Personal Art of War: Medieval European Marital Arts Revived

Saturday, May 6th

1:30 pm

Session 448: Crusade Historiography
Sponsor: Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol
Valley III, 303 

William Purkis – Pope Calixtus II, the Historia Turpini, and the Origins of Crusading in Spain

Natasha Hodgson – Crusade Narrative as Chivalric Literature: The Interpenetration of Fact and Fiction

Marcus Bull – The Gesta Francorum as Narrative History

Nicholas Morton – The Teutonic Knights during the Crusade of Frederick II: The Evidence of the Ibelin Chroniclers

Sunday May 7th

9:00 am

Session 609: Warfare and Violence in the Middle Stages of the Hundred Years War
Sponsor: Society of the White Hart
Valley II, 207 

James Hart – Crusader or Saint? Thomas of Lancaster and the Rhetoric of Rebellion

Daniel Thiery – Henry V and the Rouen Ditch: A Search for Civility within the Civilizing Process

Malcolm Mercer – The “Ins and Outs” after the Battle of Towton: Structural Changes to the Royal Affinity, 1461-85