Antichrist, Archenemy, Disturber of the Peace — Forms and Means of Violent Conflict in the Early Modern Ages

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter 1
2. Clash of Typologies — The Naming of Wars and the Invention of Typologies 11
3. A General Typology of Transcultural Wars — The Early Middle Ages and Beyond 29
4. Transcultural Warfare — The Later Middle Ages 43
5. Antichrist, Archenemy, Disturber of the Peace — Forms and Means of Violent Conflict in the Early Modern Ages 57
6. A General Typology of Transcultural Wars — The Modern Ages 85
7. Rules of War or War without Rules? — Some Reflections on Conduct and the Treatment of Non-Combatants in Medieval Transcultural Wars 107
8. A Tale of Two Wars 141
9. Sexual Violence in Wars — The Middle Ages 151
10. Gender Specific Crimes in Wars of the Modern Age 165
11. The Christian Concept of the Muslim Enemy during the Crusades 185
12. Enemy Images in the American Civil War — A Case Study on Their Function in a Modern Society 195
13. From Muhi to Mohäcs — Armies and Combatants in Later Medieval European Transcultural Wars 213
14. Soldiers and Mercenaries, Protagonists in Transcultural Wars in the Modern Ages 249
15. Back Matter 261