Classen / Margolis War and Peace

Critical Issues in European Societies and Literature 800-1800
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-026822-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 8, 654 Seiten

Reihe: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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.

Zielgruppe

Academics (Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, History), Libraries, Departments

Autoren/Hrsg.

Classen, Albrecht

Margolis, Nadia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA; Nadia Margolis, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., USA.