War and peace in the western political imagination [[electronic resource] ] : from classical antiquity to the age of reason / / Roger B. Manning |
Autore | Manning Roger B (Roger Burrow) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Bloomsbury, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.00901 |
Collana | Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs |
Soggetto topico |
War - History
Peace - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4742-5873-5
1-4742-5872-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover page; Halftitle page; Epigraph; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Legacy of Classical Antiquity; The Greek martial ethos; Alexander the Great and empire-building; Stoicism and Greek concepts of peace; The Roman military machine; Roman concepts of peace; Early Christian pacifi sm; Stoicism and constraints on war; 2 War and Peace in the Medieval World; The Augustinian earthly city; Barbarians, war, and violence; Christianity and Germanic society; The Carolingian Empire and feudalism; Chivalry and warfare; Medieval just-war theories
The Peace and Truce of GodThe papacy and the crusades; War and diplomacy in the Byzantine Empire; The Hundred Years War and papal diplomacy; Emergence of a peace ethic; 3 Holy Wars, Crusades, and Religious Wars; Holy war in the Bible; The concepts of holy war; Islamic holy war; Crusades against the Saracens; The Turkish holy war against Christendom; Crusades against Christians; Wars of the Reformation; French religious wars; Thirty Years War; British and Irish civil wars; 4 Humanism and Neo-Stoicism; The Renaissance and the study of war and peace; The Machiavellians and the martial ethos Erasmianism and irenic cultureThe Salamancan School and just-war theory; Utopianism; Neo-Stoicism; Secular explanations of war and peace; 5 The Search for a Science of Peace; Gentili and Grotius: Natural law and constraints on war; Classical republicans and martialism; Hobbes's fear of civil strife; The science of politics; Political psychology: The science of peace and absolutism; Inventing peace; Conclusion; Appendix; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910311932603321 |
Manning Roger B (Roger Burrow) | ||
London, : Bloomsbury, 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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War and peace in the western political imagination : from classical antiquity to the age of reason / / Roger B. Manning |
Autore | Manning Roger B (Roger Burrow) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Bloomsbury, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.00901 |
Collana | Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs |
Soggetto topico |
War - History
Peace - History |
ISBN |
1-4742-5873-5
1-4742-5872-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover page; Halftitle page; Epigraph; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Legacy of Classical Antiquity; The Greek martial ethos; Alexander the Great and empire-building; Stoicism and Greek concepts of peace; The Roman military machine; Roman concepts of peace; Early Christian pacifi sm; Stoicism and constraints on war; 2 War and Peace in the Medieval World; The Augustinian earthly city; Barbarians, war, and violence; Christianity and Germanic society; The Carolingian Empire and feudalism; Chivalry and warfare; Medieval just-war theories
The Peace and Truce of GodThe papacy and the crusades; War and diplomacy in the Byzantine Empire; The Hundred Years War and papal diplomacy; Emergence of a peace ethic; 3 Holy Wars, Crusades, and Religious Wars; Holy war in the Bible; The concepts of holy war; Islamic holy war; Crusades against the Saracens; The Turkish holy war against Christendom; Crusades against Christians; Wars of the Reformation; French religious wars; Thirty Years War; British and Irish civil wars; 4 Humanism and Neo-Stoicism; The Renaissance and the study of war and peace; The Machiavellians and the martial ethos Erasmianism and irenic cultureThe Salamancan School and just-war theory; Utopianism; Neo-Stoicism; Secular explanations of war and peace; 5 The Search for a Science of Peace; Gentili and Grotius: Natural law and constraints on war; Classical republicans and martialism; Hobbes's fear of civil strife; The science of politics; Political psychology: The science of peace and absolutism; Inventing peace; Conclusion; Appendix; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910597912103321 |
Manning Roger B (Roger Burrow) | ||
London, : Bloomsbury, 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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