War and Peace : : Critical Issues in European Societies and Literature 800-1800 / / ed. by Albrecht Classen, Nadia Margolis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Arabatzis, George,; Breeze, Andrew,; Campbell, John,; Casey, Denis,; Classen, Albrecht,; Collette, Carolyn P.,; Connell, Charles W.,; Dempsey, John A.,; Fuwa, Yuri,; Grimbert, Joan Tasker,; Holder, Heidi J.,; Kennedy, Angus J.,; Kocher, Zan,; Kumhera, Glenn,; McDonald, William C.,; Münkner, Jörn,; Peacock, Martha Moffitt,; Petkov, Kiril,; Pollack, Sean,; Small, Susan,; Snook, Ben,; Taylor, Scott L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Classen, Albrecht,; Margolis, Nadia,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (646 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. A. Theoretical and Historical Reflections -- 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 Princes -- Chapter 8 Cligés Un cut: Some Notes on the Battlefields in Chrétien 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 Arthure -- Chapter 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 Deadly Sin: Michel Beheim’s Verses on Wrath (1457–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 Peace Plans -- Chapter 19 The Art of Defying the Enemy: Albrecht Dürer’s Concept of the Ars fortificatoria -- Chapter 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