Chapter 16 Armed Conflict as Deadly Sin: Michel Beheim’s Verses on Wrath (1457–ca.1470)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction. A. Theoretical and Historical Reflections 1
4. Chapter 1 The Conquest of Sodom: Symbiosis of Calumny and Canon in the Jus Belli from Ireland to the Indies 81
5. Chapter 2 Just War in Anglo Saxon England: Transmission and Reception 99
6. Chapter 3 Histories of Violence: The Origins of War in Beowulf 121
7. Chapter 4 Warlords and Diplomats in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi 155
8. Chapter 5 Origins of Medieval Public Opinion in the Peace of God Movement 171
9. Chapter 6 “A Compulsory and Burdensome Imposition”: Billeting Troops in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland 193
10. Chapter 7 From Holy War to Patient Endurance: Henry IV, Matilda of Tuscany, and the Evolution of Bonizo of Sutri’s Response to Heretical Princes 217
11. Chapter 8 Cligés Un cut: Some Notes on the Battlefields in Chrétien de Troyes’ Cligés 253
12. Chapter 9 Peace and Love: Communities and Couples in Old French Romance Plots 277
13. Chapter 10 Kiss and Make Up? Ritual Peacemaking in Frankish Morea and Its Narrative Reflections 293
14. Chapter 11 The Power of Sermons in War and Peace: The Example of Berthold of Regensburg 313
15. Chapter 12 Promoting Peace in Medieval Siena: Peacemaking Legislation and Its Effects 333
16. Chapter 13 A “Just War”? A Further Reassessment of the Alliterative Morte Arthure 349
17. Chapter 14 Waging Spiritual War: Philippe de Mézières, The Order of the Passion and the Power of Performance 377
18. Chapter 15 Christine de Pizan’s Epistre a la reine: A Woman’s Perspective on War and Peace? 395
19. Chapter 16 Armed Conflict as Deadly Sin: Michel Beheim’s Verses on Wrath (1457–ca.1470) 425
20. Chapter 17 Love and War in the Fifteenth Century Burgundian Prose Cligés: The Duke of Saxony’s Passion for Fenice 443
21. Chapter 18 Sailing Away from Byzantium: Renaissance Crusade Literature and Peace Plans 463
22. Chapter 19 The Art of Defying the Enemy: Albrecht Dürer’s Concept of the Ars fortificatoria 491
23. Chapter 20 Sixteenth Century Protests Against War and Its Tragic Consequences: The Testimony of Hans Sachs and His Contemporaries 517
24. Chapter 21 Racine’s Holy Wars 541
25. Chapter 22 Out of the Kitchen and into the Fire: The Dutch Heroine Tradition 557
26. Chapter 23 The Animal Actor and the Spectacle of Warfare: Lewis’s Timour the Tartar at Covent Garden 599
27. List of Illustrations 619
28. Contributors 623
29. Index 631