Medieval and Modern Civil Wars

A Comparative Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46147-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 135, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 692 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

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.

Contributors are Ebrahim Afsah, Gerd Althoff, Jenny Benham, John Comaroff, Hans Jacob Orning, Frederik Rosén, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Henrik Vigh, Helle Vogt, Stephen D. White, and Øyvind Østerud.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sigurdsson, Jón Vidar

Orning, Hans Jacob

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Bürgerkriege
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on ContributorsIII

IntroductionX

Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Hans Jacob Orning

1 Constant Crisis

Hans Jacob Orning and Henrik Vigh

2 Who Is the Enemy? Multipolar Micropolitics

Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Henrik Vigh

3 Sverris saga: A Manifesto for a New Political Order

Hans Jacob Orning and Frederik Rosén

4 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

5 The Contingent State between Ideal and Practice

Ebrahim Afsah and Jenny Benham

6 Peace: How to Stop Fighting, Win Friends and Influence People

Ebrahim Afsah and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson

7 Re-Thinking “Rebellion” and “Civil War” in Medieval England: The War of the Son against the Father (1173–74)

Stephen D. White

8 The Formation of Trust: On the History of an Elementary Category of Peacebuilding

Gerd Althoff

9 The Rise and Fall of the Leviathan: A Juxtaposition of Pre-State and Post-State Wars

Øyvind Østerud

10 Reflections on the Political Theology of Conflict: From Medieval Scandinavia to the Global Future

John Comaroff

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Ph.D. (1993), is a Professor of Medieval History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo. He has published several books on Icelandic and Scandinavian history in the period c. 800-1500.

Hans Jacob Orning, Ph.D. (2004), is a Professor of Medieval History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo. He has written extensively on the political culture in medieval Scandinavia.