Peace and Negotiation
Strategies for Co-existence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
D. Wolfthal (ed.)
XXX+266 p., 19 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm, 2000
ISBN: 978-2-503-50904-4
Languages: English
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The articles in this volume cover a
broad range of disciplines, times, and geographical areas and explore
strategies that were used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance to resolve
conflict and attain peace, a concept at times constructed as a rich and
complex, positive and dynamic ideal.
Peace was far from a pale, static concept
- a simple lack of violence - in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Rather, it was at times constructed as a rich and complex, positive and
dynamic ideal. The thirteen articles in this volume cover a broad range
of disciplines, times, and geographical areas and explore strategies
that were used in the past to resolve conflict and attain peace. They
examine events, texts, and images that date from the fifth through the
sixteenth centuries, and their authors focus not only on Western
Europe, but also on Scandinavia, the Caucusus, and Egypt. This volume
rests on the assumption that peace covers a spectrum of situations that
connects the personal and the political. Therefore, the papers
presented here examine not only how nations negotiated peace, but also
how individuals did. Similarly, although several essays spotlight those
in the seat of power, others explore those who are politically
marginalized. our views about peace and conflict, as this collection
makes clear, are shaped in part by the mentalités of the past. Although
some peacemaking strategies may be unacceptable to us today - forced
marriages and conversions, for example - we can learn from other
strategies how to transcend or modify various modes of antagonistic
thinking.
The contents of the volume are as follows:
D. Wolfthal; Introduction
M. W. Herren; Negotiating settlements in half-Christianized
societies: the case of early medieval Ireland
L. Eshleman; Weavers of war, weavers of peace
R. Lavelle; Towards a political contextualization of peacemaking
and peace agreements in Anglo-Saxon England
J. Edward Damon; Advisors for peace in the reign of Æthelred the
Unræd
J. Wilcox; The St. Brice's Day massacre and Archbishop
Wulfstan
C. S. Pendergast; Outside the walls: jurisdiction and justice on a
gateway at Anzy-le-Duc
K. M. Christensen; The conciliatory rhetoric of mysticism in the
correspondence of Heinrich von Nördlingen and Margaretha
Ebner
L.S.B. MacCoull; The Rite of the Jar: Apostasty and Reconciliation
in the Medieval Coptic Orthodox Church
S. H. Rapp JR.; Christian Caucasian Dialogues: Glimpses of
Armeno-K´art´velian Relations in Medieval Georgian
Historiography
B. Lowe; A War to End All Wars? Protestant Subversions of Henry
VIII´s Final Scottish and French Campaigns (1542-45)
C. Skenazi; Dispositio as an Art of Peace in Ronsard´s
Poetry
S. Ffolliott; Make Love, Not War: Imaging Peace through Marriage in
Renaissance France
N. J. Efron; Common Goods: Jewish and Christian Householder Cultures
in Early Modern Prague
Review
"(...) a wide-ranging and erudite
collection of essays on peace in the pre-modern world." (M.
Cassidy-Welch in Parergon, p. 251-252)
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