scholarly journals A Forgotten Hero?: The Influence of Andrew Murray during the Scottish Wars of Independence, 1296-1298

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis Clegg
Keyword(s):  
Military Leader

William Wallace is a highly renowned Scottish legend, who led his nation to victories against the English in battles such as Stirling Bridge. There are also some other less known figures who contributed to this success but are lost in the Wallace romance. The most notable of these figures is Andrew Murray. Murray is a forgotten hero in Scottish legacy, and played a major role in Wallace's success. Andrew Murray was a strong military leader and was greatly admiried by the lower classes of Scotland. Murray's character and tactics as a military leader were instrumental in Wallace's campaigns against the English, particularly at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. This was made further evident by his death in late 1297 and his absence in the Scottish defeat at the Battle of Falkirk the following year. 

Optegninger af følelser i det militære ledelsesrum – inddragelse og unddragelse

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 153-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Therese Heltberg
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Military Leadership ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Military Leader ◽  
Emotional Demands ◽  
The Military ◽  
Feeling Rules

Denne artikel omhandler optegninger af følelser i det militære ledelsesrum. Gennem en iagttagelse af tre udvalgte, empiriske case-temaer viser artiklen en udspænding imellem fordringer om at besidde og anvende emotionelle kompetencer i det militære ledelsesvirke og muligheder for at unddrage sig disse fordringer. Artiklen undersøger blandt andet, hvordan udvalgte ledelsesteknologier indgår i og bidrager til optegningerne. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Therese Heltberg: Emotions in Military Leadership This article considers enactments of emotions in military leadership and command. It is based on three cases. The article points to some of the emotional demands on the military leader. It also demonstrates how military doctrines and procedures may enable a contextual suspension of these emotional demands. Keywords: military leadership, emotion work, feeling rules, emotional intelligence, management technologies.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Military Leader ◽  
Middle Years

This concluding chapter describes how Cnut emerged in several complementary roles: an intelligent and pragmatic diplomacist, an energetic and active ruler, a cunning and resourceful military leader, and a devout Christian. His life falls into three main phases. First, his early life appears to have been shaped by the instabilities of his family and its hold on Denmark—namely his position as second son to Swen Forkbeard—which lead to his conquest of England. The middle years of his life reveal a period of rapid activity characterized by Cnut's responses to various threats. Finally, the years of his mature life saw the fruits of this labor in the development of a stable court around Cnut, which appears to have fostered a new and distinct Anglo-Danish identity.

scholarly journals Irilen på Øverby i Vingulmark

Viking ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frode Iversen ◽  
Karoline Kjesrud ◽  
Harald Bjorvand ◽  
Justin J. L. Kimball ◽  
Sigrid Mannsåker Gundersen
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Context ◽  
Military Leader ◽  
Migration Period ◽  
Language History ◽  
And Migration

The iril at Øverby in Vingulmark This article presents the first interpretation of a 5th century proto-Norse runic inscription discovered in 2017 at Øverby, Østfold, Norway: "Cut runes in, skilled iril, for Isni”. The meaning of the word iril is discussed in light of the ten other proto-Norse inscriptions in Scandinavia where irils are mentioned. Through analysis of the language, history, archaeology and landscape context of all the iril inscriptions, we argue that the iril in the Roman and Migration period was a military leader, an earl, subordinate to a King. The iril at Øverby was Earl in the medieval shire of Vingulmark. The Earls in this period were located in strategic places in the outskirts of larger habitation areas close to the shire borders. The findings are set in context with among other Danish bog offering sites. We consider the iril a military leader for major warrior groups that fought in Scandinavia and on the continent 1500–1800 years ago. 

An Iskandarnāma of Nizami Produced for Ibrahim Sultan

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lâle Uluç
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Visual Data ◽  
Military Leader ◽  
Basic Task ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

This paper introduces a copy of the Iskandarnāma of Nizami dated 1435 and dedicated to the Timurid prince Ibrahim Sultan, grandson of the eponymous founder of the Timurid dynasty. It discusses the various features of the manuscript together with comparable examples from the same period, and also focuses on Abu al-Fath Ibrahim Sultan ibn Shah Rukh and his role as both a military leader and a patron of the arts during his tenure as the governor of the provinces of Fars, Kirman, and Luristan (1414–35). Utilizing the visual data together with the historical context of the period, this essay interprets one of the illustrations of the Iskandarnāma, hoping to fulfill what David Summers called “the most basic task of art history,” which he says “is to explain why works of art look the way they look.” The addition of this Iskandarnāma manuscript to the surviving corpus of works that can be connected to Ibrahim Sultan will provide a further insight into the important patronage of this Timurid prince.

scholarly journals Boniface of Montferrat and His Activities in the Balkan Peninsula

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-82
Author(s):  
Nikola Dyulgerov
Keyword(s):  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Military Leader ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Fourth Crusade ◽  
The People

Planned as an expedition to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims, the Fourth Crusade became a crushing weapon, destroying Byzantium and changing the fate of the Balkans. Its leader marquis Boniface of Montferrat was one of the people, who had the greatest influence in directing the pilgrims to Constantinople. Fulfilling his vassal duty to Philip of Swabia and pursuing his ambition to restore the lands and authority of his brothers in Byzantium, he set out for the East. A brave knight, an influential seigneur, an experienced military leader, but an unscrupulous and a cruel politician, he lost the “battle” for the imperial crown of Constantinople, but won Thessaloniki. There he set the beginning of a new crusader state, which covered the lands from the Rhodope Mountains to the Peloponnese peninsula. However, his eastern adventure ended tragically. Underestimating the force and the abilities of the Bulgarians, he lost his life in battle against them.

Rapports intertextuels et (re)constructions identitaires dans le roman Bois rouge de Jean-Marie Touratier

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Loredana Stănică ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Military Leader ◽  
Jean De Lery ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Great Complexity

Published in 1993, the novel Bois rouge by Jean-Marie Touratier brings to life the history of the short-lived French colony of Brazil, the Antarctic France, whose existence, reduced to only five years (1555-1560), was described in the travelogues written in the 16th century by André Thevet (Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique - The New Found World, or Antarctike) and Jean de Léry (Histoire d’un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil – History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil). Beneath the appearance of a simple story told by an ironic voice, sometimes even satirical towards the military leader of the French colony, the Knight of Malta Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon and his chaplain, André Thevet, future cosmographer of the kings of France, the novel delves into issues of great complexity, such as (the issue of) identity and the relationship to the Other (the American “savage”).

The role of the officers’ mess in inclusive military leader social identity construction

Leadership ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 174271502110636
Author(s):  
Edward Gosling
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Military Leader ◽  
Leadership Identity ◽  
Leader Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Legal Traditions ◽  
Shared History ◽  
Integral Feature

Leadership is fundamentally a social phenomenon, and a leader’s legitimacy in personal and social terms is determined partly by how effectively they incorporate the prototypical leader identity. Using the historical British officers’ mess as a case study, this article presents a conceptual examination of the function place can perform in the construction of collective leader identities and the interconnected influence shared history, materiality and social interaction can have in encouraging inclusivity in leadership. Leadership identity is an integral feature of military life which has historically drawn on complex cultural and legal traditions to underwrite the individual’s right to command. This article will argue that social places such as the officers’ mess have been utilised as a means of cultivating cohesion in the past and that they may have an application in furthering inclusive collective leader identities in the future.

Overthrowing Governments

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-83
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Rabe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
The United States ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Nixon Administration ◽  
Military Leader ◽  
Henry Kissinger ◽  
Salvador Allende ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
The U.S

This chapter details how the first crisis for the Nixon administration came with the news that leftist Salvador Allende had captured a plurality of the vote in the September 1970 presidential election. It reviews the U.S. role in destabilizing the Allende government. The historical literature tends to give scant attention to the United States and Chile after September 11, 1973. To recount the complete story about the U.S. role in Chile demands investigating not only the war against Allende but also the myriad of ways that the Nixon and Ford administrations and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger bolstered the Pinochet dictatorship. The chapter also analyzes Kissinger's lead role in encouraging the overthrow of President Juan José Torres (1970–1971), the socialist political and military leader of Bolivia.

Bonaparte’s Bursting Buttons: A Thin Story

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Öhrström
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Dense Material ◽  
Alexander The Great ◽  
Military Leader ◽  
Napoleon Bonaparte ◽  
Popular Book ◽  
The Town ◽  
Warm Clothing

On my way to Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, one late November I realized that I had not packed any winter clothes. It turns out that I was not the first to make this blunder. None of the half a million or so Germans, French, Swiss, Poles, Italians, and other nationalities who passed through the town or in its vicinity in June 1812 had packed any winter clothes, something many of them were to later regret. They were on their way, although they did not know it at the time, to Moscow. What they also did not know was that they were going to make what was arguably the world’s worst aller-retour journey ever: Vilna to Moscow and back (at that time the town was known under its Polish name and had recently been acquired by the Russians in the process of the annihilation of the Polish state). It was June, and they were in a good mood, as the Russian Tsar had recently fled Vilna followed by his quarrelling generals, and they were under the command of possibly the most competent military leader since Alexander the Great: Napoleon Bonaparte. The lack of warm clothing was not going to bother me, however. By the morning the snow had melted, and luckily I was not on my way to Moscow on foot. I was in Vilnius to search for some buttons, preferably made of tin. The story of Napoleon’s buttons and their allegedly fateful role in the disastrous 1812 campaign is widespread among scientists and science teachers. This is partly due to the popular book with the same name by the chemists Penny LeCouteur and Jay Burreson, and I wanted to find out whether there could be any truth in it, or whether it was just another of the legends and rumours that has formed around this war. Briefly, the story goes like this: metallic tin is a dense material (lots of atoms per cubic centimetre) and was supposedly the material used for many of the buttons of what was known as la Grande Armée. Unfortunately, metallic tin has a nasty Mr Hyde variation, known as grey tin.

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