Martial Culture in Medieval Towns: An Anthology

ISBN-13: 9783796547133 / Angielski

Daniel Jaquet; Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis; Regula Schmid

Opis

Cultural impact of weapons and warfare in towns

O autorze

Daniel Jaquet is senior researcher at the University of Bern for the SNSF project Martial Culture in Medieval Towns. He holds a PhD in medieval history (University of Geneva, 2013) and specializes in cultural history of martial practices at the end of the Middle Ages.Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis is the online blog editor for the «Martial Culture in Medieval Towns» project. His research examines arms and armour typologies, function and the perception of these objects as cultural artefacts in various martial contexts.Regula Schmid is professor of medieval history at the Department of Medieval History at the University of Bern. She is the lead researcher of the SNSF project Martial Culture in Medieval Towns, and has published extensively on urban political, martial, and memorial culture. Her current research focuses on urban militias and the impact of war on society, politics, and everyday life in late medieval Switzerland.