Transcultural Wars : : from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century / / ed. by Hans-Henning Kortüm.

Eine von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft getragene Forschergruppe an der Universität Regensburg untersucht seit einigen Jahren im Rahmen einer Neuen Militärgeschichte "Formen und Funktionen des Krieges im Mittelalter". Im März 2004 wurde auf einer international und interdisziplinär au...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin : : Akademie Verlag, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Clash of Typologies — The Naming of Wars and the Invention of Typologies
  • A General Typology of Transcultural Wars — The Early Middle Ages and Beyond
  • Transcultural Warfare — The Later Middle Ages
  • Antichrist, Archenemy, Disturber of the Peace — Forms and Means of Violent Conflict in the Early Modern Ages
  • A General Typology of Transcultural Wars — The Modern Ages
  • Rules of War or War without Rules? — Some Reflections on Conduct and the Treatment of Non-Combatants in Medieval Transcultural Wars
  • A Tale of Two Wars
  • Sexual Violence in Wars — The Middle Ages
  • Gender Specific Crimes in Wars of the Modern Age
  • The Christian Concept of the Muslim Enemy during the Crusades
  • Enemy Images in the American Civil War — A Case Study on Their Function in a Modern Society
  • From Muhi to Mohäcs — Armies and Combatants in Later Medieval European Transcultural Wars
  • Soldiers and Mercenaries, Protagonists in Transcultural Wars in the Modern Ages
  • Back Matter