Medievalists.net » Peace of God (Pax Dei) http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +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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