War and Peace: Critical Issues in European Societies and Literature 800-1800

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War and Peace

Critical Issues in European Societies and Literature 800-1800

Edited by: Albrecht Classen and Nadia Margolis

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2011

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Volume 8 | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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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 and justification of military operations. Because man is a deeply aggressive and greedy creature, wars have been waged throughout times. Nevertheless, we can identify many voices in medieval literature, theology, philosophy, and in chronicle literature that questioned the validity and effectiveness of war, while many others argued for the traditional knightly ideals or called for crusades against the infidels. Those heroes who defend a people against an evil threat enjoyed profound respect, but there were also those figures calling for peace and the end of all fighting. As this volume demonstrates, war and peace have fundamentally determined medieval and early modern culture.

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Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA; Nadia Margolis, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., USA.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Introduction. A. Theoretical and Historical Reflections Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Chapter 1 The Conquest of Sodom: Symbiosis of Calumny and Canon in the Jus Belli from Ireland to the Indies Scott L. Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
Chapter 2 Just War in Anglo Saxon England: Transmission and Reception Ben Snook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
Chapter 3 Histories of Violence: The Origins of War in Beowulf Sean Pollack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
Chapter 4 Warlords and Diplomats in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi Andrew Breeze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
Chapter 5 Origins of Medieval Public Opinion in the Peace of God Movement Charles W. Connell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
Chapter 6 “A Compulsory and Burdensome Imposition”: Billeting Troops in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland Denis Casey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
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 John A. Dempsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
Chapter 8 Cligés Un cut: Some Notes on the Battlefields in Chrétien de Troyes’ Cligés Susan Small Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
Chapter 9 Peace and Love: Communities and Couples in Old French Romance Plots Zan Kocher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Chapter 10 Kiss and Make Up? Ritual Peacemaking in Frankish Morea and Its Narrative Reflections Kiril Petkov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
Chapter 11 The Power of Sermons in War and Peace: The Example of Berthold of Regensburg Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
Chapter 12 Promoting Peace in Medieval Siena: Peacemaking Legislation and Its Effects Glenn Kumhera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
Chapter 13 A “Just War”? A Further Reassessment of the Alliterative Morte Arthure Yuri Fuwa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
Chapter 14 Waging Spiritual War: Philippe de Mézières, The Order of the Passion and the Power of Performance Carolyn P. Collette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
Chapter 15 Christine de Pizan’s Epistre a la reine: A Woman’s Perspective on War and Peace? Angus J. Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
Chapter 16 Armed Conflict as Deadly Sin: Michel Beheim’s Verses on Wrath (1457–ca.1470) William C. McDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	425
Chapter 17 Love and War in the Fifteenth Century Burgundian Prose Cligés: The Duke of Saxony’s Passion for Fenice Joan Tasker Grimbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	443
Chapter 18 Sailing Away from Byzantium: Renaissance Crusade Literature and Peace Plans George Arabatzis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	463
Chapter 19 The Art of Defying the Enemy: Albrecht Dürer’s Concept of the Ars fortificatoria Jörn Münkner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	491
Chapter 20 Sixteenth Century Protests Against War and Its Tragic Consequences: The Testimony of Hans Sachs and His Contemporaries Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	517
Chapter 21 Racine’s Holy Wars John Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	541
Chapter 22 Out of the Kitchen and into the Fire: The Dutch Heroine Tradition Martha Moffitt Peacock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	557
Chapter 23 The Animal Actor and the Spectacle of Warfare: Lewis’s Timour the Tartar at Covent Garden Heidi J. Holder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	599
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	619
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	623
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	631

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eBook published on:

September 29, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110268225

Hardcover published on:

September 16, 2011

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110268072

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Front matter:

8

Main content:

646

Illustrations:

28

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110268225

eBook ISBN: 9783110268225

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110268072

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War and Peace in Literature (Medieval and Early Modern Times)

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