A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history.
This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age explores peace from 800 to 1450. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace, peace movements, maintaining peace, peace in relation to gender, religion and war and representations of peace.
A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in the medieval era.
Author(s): Walter Simons
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 201
City: London
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Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION Was there Peace in the Middle Ages?
A VERY BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MEDIEVAL AGE
PUBLIC AUTHORITY, PEACE, AND VIOLENCE
THE MAIN THEMES: RELIGIOUS BELIEF, WAR, HONOR, AND GENDER, COLLECTIVE ACTION
CHAPTER ONE Definitions of Peace
CAROLINGIAN LEGACIES
AMICITIA, PACTA, AND PERFORMANCES OF PEACE
PEACE AS PROTECTION AND REFORM OF THE CHURCH
THE PEACE OF CITIES
PEACE AND SECULAR POLITICAL THEORY
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER TWO Human Nature, Peace, and War
THE METAPHYSICAL BACKGROUND
THE PEACE THAT IS SAID OF GOD
KINDS OF PEACE AND ZONES OF PEACE
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF PEACE
CAN PEACE EXTEND ACROSS RELIGIOUS LINES OF DIVISION?
PARALLEL DEVELOPMENTS IN ISLAM AND JUDAISM
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER THREE Peace, War, and Gender
IMPRINTING WAR-MAKING AS MASCULINE
CODING PEACEMAKING AS FEMININE
BLURRING THE LINES
CHAPTER FOUR Peace, Pacifism, and Religion: A Universal Longing Unfulfilled
THE NATURE OF INTERNAL PEACE: CHRISTIANITY
THE NATURE OF INTERNAL PEACE: JUDAISM
THE NATURE OF INTERNAL PEACE: ISLAM
PEACE BETWEEN PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT FAITH
IN ISLAM
IN JUDAISM
IN CHRISTIANITY
CHAPTER FIVE Representations of Peace: Heavenly Dreams, Earthly Needs
THE LEGACY OF ROME
CHRISTIAN IMAGERY: PEACE IN THE CELESTIAL JERUSALEM
PEACE ON EARTH
THE WORLD OF RITUAL: THE KISS
AN URBAN VISION: AMBROGIO LORENZETTI’S PEACE AND WAR
CHAPTER SIX Peace Movements: Peace in the Communes
PEACE AND THE COMMUNE TO THE EARLY THIRTEENTH CENTURY
THE ALLELUIA OF 1233
THE FLAGELLANTS OF 1260
THE POLITICS AND PIETY OF PEACE AMONG THE LATE-MEDIEVAL LAITY
ITALY’S LAST MEDIEVAL PEACE MOVEMENT: THE BIANCHI OF 1399
THE IDEAL CITY: NASCENT STATES AND RELIGIOUS IDEALS IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY
CHAPTER SEVEN Peace, Security, and Deterrence
INTRODUCTION
PEACE, SECURITY, AND THE DISPLACEMENT OF PEOPLE
ARBITRATION
GUARANTORS AND DETERRENTS OF PEACE AND SECURITY
DIPLOMACY AND FOSTERING PEACEFUL RELATIONS
PEACE, DETERRENCE, AND LAW IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND BEYOND
CHAPTER EIGHT Peace as Integration: The Many Sides of Medieval Peace
A PROTEAN TERM
A POLITICS OF PACTS
THE PEACE OF GOD AND ASSOCIATIVE PEACES
A VERY EUROPEAN IDEA OF PEACE
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
