Victors and Vanquished in the Euro-Mediterranean: Dealing with Victory and Defeat in the Middle Ages

The volume presents a comparative perspective on victors and vanquished according to the categories of remembering victory and defeat, practices of celebrating victory and triumphs as well as the culture of dealing with the vanquished. Specifically, the representation of victory and defeat in Byzantine literature of the 10th–12th centuries is contrasted with commemorative practices in early Russia, and the reflection of military events in courtly music of the 15th century is examined. In addition, the practices of celebrating victories in England in the High and Late Middle Ages are explored, as is the treatment of the defeated and the subjugated in the Frankish Empire of the 9th century, in Norman southern Italy and in Byzantium. Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Body Johannes Pahlitzsch: Byzantium's Place in the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War Bibliography Literature I Remembering Victory and Defeat Athina Kolia-Dermitzaki: The Rhetoric of Victory in Byzantine Texts of the 10th to 12th Centuries: Historiography and Panegyrics in a Comparative Context Bibliography Sources Literature Tristan Schmidt: The Merciful Emperor, the Tame Barbarian, and the Ideal of Imperial Victory in Times of Failure. Border Warfare in 11th and 12th Century Byzantium Constantine IX and the Pechenegs (1047) Alexios I and the Pechenegs (1087) Manuel I and the Turks Isaac II and the Cumans Discussion Bibliography Sources Literature Alexandra Vukovich: Victory and Defeat Liturgified. The Symbolic World of Martial Ritual in Early Rus Military Rituals in Rus Divine intercession The iconography of intercession Bibliography Sources Literature II Practices of Celebrating Victory and Triumphs Jörg Rogge: After the Battle. Triumphs and Victory Celebrations in Late Medieval England Bibliography Sources Literature Klaus Pietschmann: Musical Echoes of Victory and Defeat in Fifteenth-Century Court Culture Bibliography Sources Literature III The Culture of Dealing with the Vanquished Thomas Scharff: Ad internitionem delevit. How Victorious Franks Treated their Defeated Enemies Bibliography Sources Literature Michael J. Decker: The Wars of John II Komnenos and the Decline of Byzantium in the East Bibliography Sources Literature Graham A. Loud: Victors and Vanquished in Norman Italy Bibliography Sources Literature Thomas Dittelbach: The Acculturation of Conflict. The Norman Conquest of Islamic Sicily under the Rule of Homage and Fealty Victimisation The Sources Homage and Fealty Et nulli iurabo fidelitatem The Islamic Counter-narrative The Battle of Cerami Exchanging Symbols of Allegiance The State of (the) Art Conclusion Bibliography Sources Literature List of Figures Dittelbach Pietschmann Vukovich