Nadia Margolis The contributors to the present volume examine, from a wide variety of perspectives, the issues of war and peace in the Middle Ages and early modern time, probing the direction of the relevant discourse regarding the legitimacy of...
mehr
Nadia Margolis The contributors to the present volume examine, from a wide variety of perspectives, the issues of war and peace in the Middle Ages and early modern time, probing the direction of the relevant discourse regarding the legitimacy of military operations. We can identify many voices in medieval literature, theology, philosophy, and in chronicle literature that questioned the validity and effectiveness of war, while others argued for the traditional knightly ideals or called for crusades against the infidels. As this volume demonstrates, war and peace have fundamentally determined medieval and earl
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Introduction; Chapter 1. The Conquest of Sodom: Symbiosis of Calumny and Canon in the Jus Belli from Ireland to the Indies; Chapter 2. Just War in Anglo-Saxon England: Transmission and Reception; Chapter 3. Histories of Violence: The Origins of War in Beowulf; Chapter 4. Warlords and Diplomats in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi; Chapter 5. Origins of Medieval Public Opinion in the Peace of God Movement; Chapter 6. "A Compulsory and Burdensome Imposition": Billeting Troops in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland
Chapter 7. From Holy War to Patient Endurance: Henry IV, Matilda of Tuscany, and the Evolution of Bonizo of Sutri's Response to Heretical PrincesChapter 8. Cligés Un-cut: Some Notes on the Battlefields in Chretien de Troyes Cligés; Chapter 9. Peace and Love: Communities and Couples in Old French Romance Plots; Chapter 10. Kiss and Make Up? Ritual Peacemaking in Frankish Morea and Its Narrative Reflections; Chapter 11. The Power of Sermons in War and Peace: The Example of Berthold of Regensburg; Chapter 12. Promoting Peace in Medieval Siena: Peacemaking Legislation and Its Effects
Chapter 13. A "Just War"? A Further Reassessment of the Alliterative Morte ArthureChapter 14. Waging Spiritual War: Philippe de Mézières, The Order of the Passion and the Power of Performance; Chapter 15. Christine de Pizan's Epistre a la reine: A Woman's Perspective on War and Peace?; Chapter 16. Armed Conflict as a Deadly Sin: Michel Beheim's Verses on Wrath (1454-ca.1470); Chapter 17. Love and War in the Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Prose Cligés: The Duke of Saxony's Passion for Fenice; Chapter 18. Sailing Away from Byzantium: Renaissance Crusade Literature and the Peace Plans
Chapter 19 .The Art of Defying the Enemy: Albrecht Dürer s Concept of the Ars fortificatoriaChapter 20. Sixteenth-Century Protests Against War and Its Tragic Consequences: The Testimony of Hans Sachs and His Contemporaries; Chapter 21. Racine's Holy Wars; Chapter 22. Out of the Kitchen and into the Fire: The Dutch Heroine Tradition; Chapter 23. The Animal Actor and the Spectacle of Warfare: Lewis's Timour the Tartar at Covent Garden; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Index;
