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Violence as War Strategy: 13th-century Mongol Conquests
Violence as War Strategy: 13th-century Mongol Conquests // International Congress Violence in the Ancient and Medieval World
Lisabon, Portugal, 2014. (predavanje, međunarodna recenzija, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Violence as War Strategy: 13th-century Mongol
Conquests
Autori
Sardelić, Mirko
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni
Skup
International Congress Violence in the Ancient and Medieval World
Mjesto i datum
Lisabon, Portugal, 17.02.2014. - 19.02.2014
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija
Ključne riječi
Mongol Conquests, 13th century, Violence, War Strategy
Sažetak
Mongol warfare (including its psychological aspect) has been dealt with in several scholarly articles and books (one of the most recent: May 2007). This paper approaches the topic from the perception/representation point of view and includes the analysis of two relatively neglected sources written by two eyewitnesses of the 1240/41 invasion: Roger of Apulia and Thomas of Spalato (Roger 2010, Thomas 2006). During their Eurasian campaigns the Mongols were often outnumbered by the enemy, but in their arsenal of tricks (astutiae) were also the custom of spreading rumors of the magnitude of their numbers as well as the strategy of the forethought violence upon the conquered ethnic groups in an attempt to a) prevent possible rebellions and b) to put fear into future enemies. As Thomas of Spalato observed, during the winter in Hungary, ‘to instill fear’ into Hungarians, the Mongols rode up and down the left bank of the Danube with the corpses of children impaled on lances like ‘fish on a spear’ (Thomas 2006, 279). One of the main points of the paper shall be the analysis of the (self)representation and its change in the years just before, during, and after the invasion of Europe in 1241/42. The Mongols used the violence mostly in order to represent themselves as merciless demons – the resistance to hordes of such creatures could be futile. On the other hand, the Europeans used similar imagery, taken from both the classical and the medieval apocalyptic traditions, to denigrate/dehumanize/demonize the enemy: the fight against such enemy suddenly becomes not only morally approved, but almost a holy duty. There will also be a paragraph on the (alleged) cannibalism of the Mongols (appearing in Paris 1882). The paper deals with the representation of the Other, the one who comes as a conqueror, and analyses the intensity in use of imagery in relation to the presence of danger and to the diplomatic goals op papal envoys to Asia (Carpini 1989 et al.)
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
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