Overview

In this highly original and stimulating study, Professor Meron uses medieval and Renaissance historical and legal sources to show how Shakespeare's Henry V and other `Histories' dramatically articulated contemporary attitudes to warfare.

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Author:   Theodor Meron
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9780198258117

ISBN 10:   0198258119
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   16 December 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

The legal environment; the war of rights - just war, jus ad bellum and jus in bello; declarations of war and truce agreements; responsibility of princes; the siege of Harfleur and treatment of occupied territory - the limits of protection - at the walls of Harfleur, mercy, hostages, Harfleur's surrender, deporting the French and settling the English, sack and massacre, privileged categories of inhabitants and Henry's ordinances, lost of privileged status - women and clergy, treatment of cities conquered after siege, treatment of commanders who surrendered to adversaries, denials of quarter, rape of women, pillage and Church property, compelling obedience by destruction, Henry's proscriptions and the Medieval army; Henry's challenge to the Dauphin - the duel that never was and games of chivalry; Medieval and Renaissance ordinances of war - codifying discipline and humanity, Agincourt - prisoners of war, reprisals and necessity; heralds, ambassadors and the Treaty of Troyes; rebels.

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<br> Extraordinary....Meron's work deserves to be celebrated by those interested in restraints on war.... Meron's comparisons between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries are bold and challenging....Henry's Wars illuminates its various subjects in a brilliant...way....By delving into the past, Meron reminds his contemporaries that standards in the use of armed force must be part of culture, not the exclusive property of legal specialists. and enlivens a subject that can easily seem arcane. --Adam Roberts in American Journal of International Law<br> A refreshing contribution to the conflictual arena of Shakespeare studies. --Times Literary Supplement<br>

Extraordinary....Meron's work deserves to be celebrated by those interested in restraints on war.... Meron's comparisons between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries are bold and challenging....Henry's Wars illuminates its various subjects in a brilliant...way....By delving into the past, Meron reminds his contemporaries that standards in the use of armed force must be part of culture, not the exclusive property of legal specialists. and enlivens a subject that can easily seem arcane. --Adam Roberts in American Journal of International Law A refreshing contribution to the conflictual arena of Shakespeare studies. --Times Literary Supplement

Extraordinary....Meron's work deserves to be celebrated by those interested in restraints on war.... Meron's comparisons between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries are bold and challenging....Henry's Wars illuminates its various subjects in a brilliant...way....By delving into the past, Meron reminds his contemporaries that standards in the use of armed force must be part of culture, not the exclusive property of legal specialists. and enlivens a subject that can easily seem arcane. --Adam Roberts in American Journal of International Law<br> A refreshing contribution to the conflictual arena of Shakespeare studies. --Times Literary Supplement<br>

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