War and Peace Critical Issues in European Societies and Literature 800-1800
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Albrecht Classen, Nadia Margolis
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War and Peace Critical Issues in European Societies and Literature 800-1800
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110268225
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Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern CultureISSN
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CHF 146.30
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Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
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English
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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 of military operations. We can identify many voices in medieval literature, theology, philosophy, and in chronicle literature that questioned the validity and effectiveness of war, while others argued for the traditional knightly ideals or called for crusades against the infidels. 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.
Table of Contents
6
Introduction
10
A. Theoretical and Historical Reflections
10
B. Literary Case Studies
20
C. Criticism of War in Medieval Literature
24
D. Historical Voices Against War and Pragmatic Aspects of War
26
E. Attempts to Establish Peace and To Reach out for Toleration or Tolerance (?)
29
F. Severe Criticism of War
34
G. Philosophical Reflections Upon War
42
H. Research on War and Peace in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
44
I. Intellectuals' Protest of and Analysis of War
46
J. Critical Summaries of the Contributions
55
K. Conclusion
84
Chapter 1. The Conquest of Sodom: Symbiosis of Calumny and Canon in the Jus Belli from Ireland to the Indies
90
Chapter 2. Just War in Anglo-Saxon England: Transmission and Reception
108
Chapter 3. Histories of Violence: The Origins of War in Beowulf
130
Chapter 4. Warlords and Diplomats in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi
164
Chapter 5. Origins of Medieval Public Opinion in the Peace of God Movement
180
Chapter 6. “A Compulsory and Burdensome Imposition”: Billeting Troops in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland
202
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
226
Chapter 8. Cligés Un-cut: Some Notes on the Battlefields in Chretien de Troyes Cligés
262
Chapter 9. Peace and Love: Communities and Couples in Old French Romance Plots
286
Chapter 10. Kiss and Make Up? Ritual Peacemaking in Frankish Morea and Its Narrative Reflections
302
Chapter 11. The Power of Sermons in War and Peace: The Example of Berthold of Regensburg
322
Chapter 12. Promoting Peace in Medieval Siena: Peacemaking Legislation and Its Effects
342
Chapter 13. A “Just War”? A Further Reassessment of the Alliterative Morte Arthure
358
Chapter 14. Waging Spiritual War: Philippe de Mézières, The Order of the Passion and the Power of Performance
386
Chapter 15. Christine de Pizan's Epistre a la reine: A Woman's Perspective on War and Peace?
404
Chapter 16. Armed Conflict as a Deadly Sin: Michel Beheim's Verses on Wrath (1454-ca.1470)
434
Chapter 17. Love and War in the Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Prose Cligés: The Duke of Saxony's Passion for Fenice
452
Chapter 18. Sailing Away from Byzantium: Renaissance Crusade Literature and the Peace Plans
472
Chapter 19 .The Art of Defying the Enemy: Albrecht Dürer s Concept of the Ars fortificatoria
500
Chapter 20. Sixteenth-Century Protests Against War and Its Tragic Consequences: The Testimony of Hans Sachs and His Contemporaries
526
Chapter 21. Racine's Holy Wars
550
Chapter 22. Out of the Kitchen and into the Fire: The Dutch Heroine Tradition
566
Chapter 23. The Animal Actor and the Spectacle of Warfare: Lewis's Timour the Tartar at Covent Garden
608
List of Illustrations
628
Contributors
632
Index
640
