Research Colloquium: Leadership Culture in Medieval Europe: an Iberian Perspective presented by Dr. Simon Barton

Thursday, April 20, 2017 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.

In standard accounts of medieval European warfare, leadership as a concept is usually defined in the context of campaign strategy and battlefield tactics. Historians have not explored to any significant extent the manner in which the human and interpersonal aspects of leadership were understood and imagined. In other words, what did medieval writers think that good (or bad) leadership was? In an attempt to answer this question, this presentation will examine some of the models of military leadership that were promoted in Christian Iberia during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, at a time of ongoing military struggle with the Islamic world to the south.

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Colbourn Hall: 146

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History Department

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