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.

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Introduction
Chapter 1. The Conquest of Sodom: Symbiosis of Calumny and Canon in the Jus Belli from Ireland to the Indies
Chapter 2. Just War in Anglo-Saxon England: Transmission and Reception
Chapter 3. Histories of Violence: The Origins of War in Beowulf
Chapter 4. Warlords and Diplomats in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi
Chapter 5. Origins of Medieval Public Opinion in the Peace of God Movement
Chapter 6. “A Compulsory and Burdensome Imposition”: Billeting Troops in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland
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
Chapter 8. Cligés Un-cut: Some Notes on the Battlefields in Chretien de Troyes Cligés
Chapter 9. Peace and Love: Communities and Couples in Old French Romance Plots
Chapter 10. Kiss and Make Up? Ritual Peacemaking in Frankish Morea and Its Narrative Reflections
Chapter 11. The Power of Sermons in War and Peace: The Example of Berthold of Regensburg
Chapter 12. Promoting Peace in Medieval Siena: Peacemaking Legislation and Its Effects
Chapter 13. A “Just War”? A Further Reassessment of the Alliterative Morte Arthure
Chapter 14. Waging Spiritual War: Philippe de Mézières, The Order of the Passion and the Power of Performance
Chapter 15. Christine de Pizan's Epistre a la reine: A Woman's Perspective on War and Peace?
Chapter 16. Armed Conflict as a Deadly Sin: Michel Beheim's Verses on Wrath (1454-ca.1470)
Chapter 17. Love and War in the Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Prose Cligés: The Duke of Saxony's Passion for Fenice
Chapter 18. Sailing Away from Byzantium: Renaissance Crusade Literature and the Peace Plans
Chapter 19 .The Art of Defying the Enemy: Albrecht Dürer s Concept of the Ars fortificatoria
Chapter 20. Sixteenth-Century Protests Against War and Its Tragic Consequences: The Testimony of Hans Sachs and His Contempora ies
Chapter 21. Racine's Holy Wars
Chapter 22. Out of the Kitchen and into the Fire: The Dutch Heroine Tradition
Chapter 23. The Animal Actor and the Spectacle of Warfare: Lewis's Timour the Tartar at Covent Garden
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