Medievalists.net » Just War (Jus Bellum) http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 ‘Protecting the non-combatant’: Chivalry, Codes and the Just War Theory http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/23/protecting-non-combatant-chivalry-codes-just-war-theory/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/23/protecting-non-combatant-chivalry-codes-just-war-theory/#comments Fri, 23 May 2014 09:48:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49815 The concept of chivalry, a traditional code of conduct idealised by the knightly class relating to times of both peace and war, dominated the medieval period and many of the scholars who contributed to the principle of jus in bello were in fact writing about chivalry.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/23/protecting-non-combatant-chivalry-codes-just-war-theory/feed/ 0 Was there Really Such a Thing as Feud in the High Middle Ages? http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/28/was-there-really-such-a-thing-as-feud-in-the-high-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/28/was-there-really-such-a-thing-as-feud-in-the-high-middle-ages/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:20:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25966 The pull toward the taking of personal vengeance is at least as evident in the medieval West as at other times and in other places. It is, indeed, a staple theme of entertainment literature.

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