Rhetoric of War : The Imagination of War in Medieval Written Sources. Central and Eastern Europe in the High Middle Ages
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Citation | KALHOUS, David and Ludmila LUŇÁKOVÁ. Rhetoric of War : The Imagination of War in Medieval Written Sources. Central and Eastern Europe in the High Middle Ages. In Kotecki, Radosław; Selchen Jensen, Carsten; Bennett, Stephen. The Christianity and War in ‘Younger Europe’ : Church at War, Religion in War, Perception of War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia. Amsterdam, Toronto: Arc Humanities Press/Amsterdam University Press, 2021, p. 207-225. ISBN 978-1-64189-133-2. |
| Description | The authors scrutinized clerical imagination of war in selected medieval chronicles and other narrative sources written between 1000 and 1300 in Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, and Rus. Firstly, attention was paid to the problem of how much consideration was given to the armed conflicts in those narratives. Secondly, they looked at the conditions under which condition the war was not condemned, but appreciated as a solution of a conflict ( “just war”). Thirdly, it was necessary to study rhetoric devices (vocabulary, metaphoric, body language, etc.) used by medieval chroniclers to describe a war. |