Print version: Rogge, Jorg Killing and Being Killed: Bodies in Battle Bielefeld : transcript,c2018 ISBN 9783837637830
Intro -- Editorial -- CONTENT -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Goths Drew Swords Together" Individual and Collective Acts of Violence by Gothic Warlords and their War Bands -- The Torture of Bodies in Byzantium After the Riots (Sec. IV-VIII) -- One man slashes, one slays, one warns, one wounds: Injury and Death in Anglo-Scottish Combat, c.1296-c.1403 -- Willing Body, Willing Mind: Non- Combatant Culpability According to English Combatant Writers, 1327-77 -- Body Techniques of Combat: The Depiction of a Personal Fighting System in the Fight Books of Hans Talhofer (1443-1467 CE) -- Six Weeks to Prepare for Combat: Instruction and Practices from the Fight Books at the End of the Middle Ages, a Note on Ritualised Single Combats -- The Body of the Condottiero A Link Between Physical Pain and Military Virtue as it was Interpreted in Renaissance Italy -- Two Kinds of War? Brutality and Atrocity in Later Medieval Scotland -- Logistics and Food Supply in the Cronica of Ramon Muntaner -- Summary and Conclusions: Silent Men and the Art of Fighting -- Contributors.