
War and Peace
Critical Issues in European Societies and Literature 800-1800
De Gruyter (Publisher)
Published on 29. September 2011
Book
Mixed media product
VIII, 646 pages
978-3-11-026823-2 (ISBN)
Article is exhausted; no reprint
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
Includes a print version and an ebook
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-11-026823-2 (9783110268232)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA; Nadia Margolis, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., USA.