Peace and negotiation : strategies for coexistence in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by Diane Wolfthal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolfthal, Diane, editor.

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Conference 1998 : Arizona State University)

Series:

Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; Volume 4.

Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v. 4

Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace--Congresses.

Peace.

Civilization, Medieval--Congresses.

Civilization, Medieval.

Renaissance--Congresses.

Renaissance.

Europe--History--476-1492--Congresses.

Europe.

Europe--History--1492-1648--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 265 p. ) ill., facsims. ;

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Caucausus, 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 the situation of those lower on the social hierarchy. 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.

Contents:

Negotiating settlements in half-Christianized societies : the case of early medieval Ireland / Michael W. Herren

Weavers of peace, weavers of war / Jori Eshleman

Towards a political contextualization of peacemaking and peace agreements in Anglo-Saxon England / Ryan Lavelle

Advisors for peace in the reign of Æthelred Unræd / John Edward Damon

The St. Brice's Day massacre and Archbishop Wulftsan / Jonathan Wilcox

Outside the walls : jurisdiction and justice on a gateway at Anzy-le-Duc / Carol Stamatis Pendergast

The conciliatory rhetoric of mysticism in the correspondence of Heinrich von Nördlingen and Margaretha Ebner / Kirsten M. Christensen

The rite of the jar : apostasy and reconciliation in the medieval Coptic Orthodox church / L.S.B. MacCoull

Christian Caucasian dialogues : glimpses of Armeno-K'art'velian relations in medieval Georgian historiography / Stephen H. Rapp Jr.

A war to end all wars? : Protestant subversions of Henry VIII's final Scottish and French campaigns (1542-45) / Ben Lowe

Dispositio as an art of peace in Ronsard's poetry / Cynthia Skenazi

Make love, not war : imgaging peace through marriage in Renaissance France / Sheila Ffolliott

Common goods : Jewish and Christian householder cultures in early modern Prague / Noah J. Efron.

Notes:

Papers presented at a the 4th annual interdisciplinary conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies held Feb. 1998, Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

2-503-53695-6