{"id":1227,"date":"2016-09-14T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2016-09-14T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:42:34","slug":"of-wolves-and-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/2016\/09\/14\/of-wolves-and-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Wolves and Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Steven Isaac has just published an article in the summer edition of the <em>Cahiers de Civilisation M\u00e9di\u00e9vale<\/em> 59:2 in France.\u00a0 The article, &#8220;Le Loup et le Mercenaire: une m\u00e9taphore d&#8217;exclusion au XIIe si\u00e8cle,&#8221; looks at how medieval chroniclers, because they did not have the actual term &#8220;mercenary&#8221; (in its modern sense) available to them, turned to other descriptions, especially that of the ravenous wolf, to describe the twelfth century&#8217;s hired warriors.\u00a0 Among the evidence treated is the earliest mention we have of the story of Little Red Riding Hood.\u00a0 Plus some werewolves.\u00a0 And supposed armies of wolves who attacked in military formations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Steven Isaac has just published an article in the summer edition of the Cahiers de Civilisation M\u00e9di\u00e9vale 59:2 in France.\u00a0 The article, &#8220;Le Loup et le Mercenaire: une m\u00e9taphore d&#8217;exclusion au XIIe si\u00e8cle,&#8221; looks at how medieval chroniclers, because they did not have the actual term &#8220;mercenary&#8221; (in its modern sense) available to them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50230],"tags":[9963,243857,243854],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-political-science-philosophy","tag-history","tag-medieval-history","tag-steven-isaac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}