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Religion and War from Antiquity to Early Modernity

Editat de Ioannis Papadogiannakis, Irene Polinskaya, Alan James
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 iun 2024
Providing a comparative and cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war from the second millennium BCE until early modernity, this book focuses on the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean basin, and Europe.The significance of religion and its influence on war has come to the forefront in recent years, either through reports from war-torn Syria or Iraq or of terrorist acts in Western capitals. Yet religion has been at the heart of violent conflict throughout human history, and the new-found urgency for informed, academic debate must recognize this. This book explores the historic link between the conduct of war and the growing complexity of a human society conditioned by the ownership of ideological authority which, in most cases, was religious. Chapters, sourced from experts in a range of disciplines, highlight the sheer complexity of the relationship between religion and war, and the variety of experiences it encompasses. Together, they challenge assumptions about the historical background of this pressing and fundamental historical nexus, and caution against simplistic views of its modern instantiations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780567697783
ISBN-10: 0567697789
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 169 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Provides a historic analysis of the relationship between religion and war, highlighting patterns of similarity as well as historical dependencies

Notă biografică

Irene Polinskaya is Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek History, King's College London, UKAlan James is Senior Lecturer in War Studies, King's College London, UKIoannis Papadogiannakis is Senior Lecturer in Patristics, King's College London, UK

Cuprins

Introduction I. Religion and War - a Recurring Historical Nexus, Irene Polinskaya, Alan James, Ioannis Papadogiannakis (King's College London, UK) Introduction II. Violence, Great Men, and the Gods: Religious and Military Sources of Social Power, 10,000 BC-AD 2019, Ian Morris (Stanford University, USA) Part One: Near East (3000-1200 BCE) 1. The "Holy War" of Eannatum: Its Origins in the Early Dynastic Central Babylonian Tradition, Xianhua Wang (Shanghai International Studies University, China) 2. "The Plans of the Gods are Destroyed": Babylonian Doubts about the Gods and War, Seth Richardson (The University of Chicago, USA) 3. Gods Bless War! Oath and Perjury in the Mesopotamian Perception of War, Francesca Nebiolo (ATER at Collège de France, France) 4. What Hittite Kings Saw: The Revelation of Divine Power in Battle, Amir Gilan (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Part Two: Near East, Egypt and the Hebrew Bible (1500 - 500 BCE) 5. Military Conquest and Divine Support: The Interlocking Hittite Genres of Treaty, Prayer, and Historiography and their Nachleben in the Hebrew Bible. Mary Bachvarova (Willamette University) 6. Pharaoh and God Before and During Battle: Three Cases from the Egyptian New Kingdom and the Late Period, Tony Spalinger (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) 7. Their Seed is No More: Rhetorical Strategies of Genocide in Ancient Egypt and the Bible, Laura Zucconi (Stockton University, USA) 8. Biblical "Laws of War": A View of War from the Side of the Vanquished, Nili Wazana (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) 9. Religion and War in Persia (Achemenid or Sassanid), Author to be confirmed Part Three: Classical and Late Antiquity (800 BCE - 700 CE) 10. Human-Divine Alliances and Religious Motivations in Greek Wars of the Classical Period, Irene Polinskaya (King's College London, UK) 11. Royal or Divine? Misreading Authority in the context of the Maccabean Revolt, Alex McAuley (Cardiff University, UK) 12. Serious Omens: Military Auspices of the Roman generals at the End of the Republic, Yann Berthelet (Université de Liège, Belgium) 13. 'The Greatest Impiety': Pollution and Divine Anger in Rome's Civil Wars, Jack Lennon (University of Leicester, UK) 14. The Christian Emperor at War, Ioannis Papadogiannakis (King's College London, UCL) 15. The Early Church and War: The Evidence of Tertullian, Ben Kolbeck (King's College London, UCL) Part Four: Middle Ages (700-1400 CE) 16. The Virgin Who Gave Birth to Victory: Divine Help to Besieged Cities during Avar-Byzantine Wars, Pleshak, Daniil (State University of St. Petersburg, Russia) 17. The Religious Dimension of the 'Last Great War of Antiquity' (603-628) and its Medieval Legacies, Yuri Stoyanov (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK) 18. The Effects of the Arab Siege of Constantinople 717-8 on Byzantine Ideology and Muslim-Christian Polemic, Ivan Maric (The University of Edinburgh, Scotland) 19. The Religious Ideology of the Almohads and their Imperial Conquests in the Twelfth-century Maghreb, Amira Bennison (University of Cambridge, UK) 20. The Role of Religion in the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad in 1258, Neggaz, Nassima (New College of Florida, USA) Part Five: Early Modern Period (1400 - 1650) 21. Divine Judgement, Battle and Strategy in the Early Part of the Hundred Years' War, Jan Willem Honig (King's College London, UK) 22. The Paradox of Female miles Christi: Isabel I of Castile and the Crusades, Fernández-Santos, Jorge (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain) 23. God's Warriors in the Most Christian Kingdom: a Reconsideration of the French Religious Wars, Penny Roberts (University of Warwick, UK) 24. Confessional Identity and War in Reformation Europe: Huguenot Mercenaries in the Swedish Army, 1605 - 1614 Jaakko Björklund (University of Helsinki, Finland) 25. Cardinal-Ministers and Warrior Priests: Religion and the Making of the Westphalian World Order Alan James (King's College London, UK) 26. The Crusades. Author to be confirmed. Conclusion I: (Not) In God's Name? A very long perspective. Hans Van Wees (University College London) Conclusion II: Historical Lessons for Modern Military Ethics and Beyond, David Whetham (King's College London)Bibliography Index