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Peace, Negotiation, and Reciprocity
Strategies for Co-Existence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
ISBN: 2503509045
ISBN-13: 9782503509044
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Brepols Pub
Published date: 2000
Size: 6.25 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.4 pounds
Pages: 266
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Peace, Negotiation, and Reciprocity: (Qty: 3)
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BREPOLS PUB, 02-0. Brand new. 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. 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. ( more information) Offered by Thunder Books (United States)
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