War and peace in the western political imagination : : from classical antiquity to the age of reason / / Roger B. Manning.

• Superior document: Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs
• Author: Manning, Roger B.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Bloomsbury classical studies monographs.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"The study of war in all periods of prehistory and recorded history has always commanded the attention of historians, dramatists, poets and artists. The study of peace has, however, not yet gained a comparable readership, and the subject is attracting an increasing amount of scholarly research. This volume presents the first work of academic research to tackle this imbalance head on. It looks at war and peace through the ages, from the Classical world through to the eighteenth century. It considers the nature and advocacy of war and peace both from an historical perspective but also a philosophical one, particularly looking at how universal peace, which began as a personal philosophy, became over the centuries a political philosophy that underpins much of modern society's attitudes towards warfare and militarism. Roger Manning begins his journey through history by looking at the Greek martial ethos and philosophical concepts of peace and war in the ancient world; moving through the Roman empire's military advances, he explores the concepts of war and peace in the medieval world and the Renaissance, with the writing of Machiavelli and Erasmus; finally, his account of the search for a science of peace in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries brings the book to its conclusion."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Table of Contents

Cover page; Halftitle page; Epigraph; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Legacy of Classical Antiquity; The Greek martial ethos; Alexander the Great and empire-building; Stoicism and Greek concepts of peace; The Roman military machine; Roman concepts of peace; Early Christian pacifi sm; Stoicism and constraints on war; 2 War and Peace in the Medieval World; The Augustinian earthly city; Barbarians, war, and violence; Christianity and Germanic society; The Carolingian Empire and feudalism; Chivalry and warfare; Medieval just-war theories

The Peace and Truce of GodThe papacy and the crusades; War and diplomacy in the Byzantine Empire; The Hundred Years War and papal diplomacy; Emergence of a peace ethic; 3 Holy Wars, Crusades, and Religious Wars; Holy war in the Bible; The concepts of holy war; Islamic holy war; Crusades against the Saracens; The Turkish holy war against Christendom; Crusades against Christians; Wars of the Reformation; French religious wars; Thirty Years War; British and Irish civil wars; 4 Humanism and Neo-Stoicism; The Renaissance and the study of war and peace; The Machiavellians and the martial ethos

Erasmianism and irenic cultureThe Salamancan School and just-war theory; Utopianism; Neo-Stoicism; Secular explanations of war and peace; 5 The Search for a Science of Peace; Gentili and Grotius: Natural law and constraints on war; Classical republicans and martialism; Hobbes's fear of civil strife; The science of politics; Political psychology: The science of peace and absolutism; Inventing peace; Conclusion; Appendix; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index