Medieval and modern civil wars : a comparative perspective /


edited by Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Hans Jacob Orning.
Bok Engelsk 2021
Omfang
xxiii, 316 pages ;
Opplysninger
Constant crisis / Hans Jacob Orning and Henrik Vigh -- Who is the enemy? Multipolar micropolitics / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Henrik Vigh -- Sverris saga : a manifesto for a new political order / Hans Jacob Orning and Frederik Rosén -- The war, and what is mine : private ownership in the civil wars in Norway and Denmark in the high Middle Ages / Frederik Rosén and Helle Vogt -- The contingent state between ideal and practice / Ebrahim Afsah and Jenny Benham -- Peace : how to stop fighting, win friends and influence people / Ebrahim Afsah and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson -- Re-thinking "rebellion" and "civil war" in Medieval England : the war of the son against the father (1173-74) / Stephen D. White -- The formation of trust : on the history of an elementary category of peacebuilding / Gerd Althoff -- The rise and fall of the Leviathan : a juxtaposition of pre-state and post-state wars / Øyvind Østerud -- Reflections on the political theology of conflict : from Medieval Scandinavia to the global future / John Comaroff.. - "Most medieval historians have explained the 'civil wars' in Scandinavia in the 12th and 13th centuries as internal conflicts within a predominantly national and implicitly state-centered politico-constitutional framework. This book argues that the conflicts during this period should be viewed as less disruptive, less internal and less state-centered than in previous research. It does so through six articles comparing the civil wars in Scandinavia with civil wars in Afghanistan and Guinea-Bissau in the last decades, applying theories and perspectives from anthropology and political science. Finally, four articles discuss civil wars in a broader perspective"--
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9789004461475
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