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EBOOK Hostages in the Middle Ages
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191626777
EAN: 8369E0B2EB
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Stron: 304
Data wydania: 2012
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In medieval Europe hostages were given, not taken. They were a means of guarantee        used to secure transactions ranging from treaties to wartime commitments to        financial transactions. In principle, the force of the guarantee lay in the threat        to the life of the hostage if the agreement were broken but, while violation of        agreements was common, execution of hostages was a rarity. Medieval hostages are        thus best understood not as simple pledges, but as a political        institutioncharacteristic of the medieval millennium, embedded in its changing        historical contexts.In the Early Middle Ages, hostageship was principally seen in        warfare and diplomacy, operating within structures of kinship and practices of        alliance characteristic of elite political society. From the eleventh century,        hostageship diversified, despite the spread of a legal and financial culture that        would seem to have made it superfluous. Hostages in the Middle Ages traces the        development of this institution from Late Antiquity through the period of the        Hundred Years War, acrossEurope and the Mediterranean World. It explores the logic        of agreements, the identity of hostages, and the conditions of their confinement,        while shedding light on a wide range of subjects, from sieges and treaties, to        captivity and ransom, to the Peace of God and the Crusades, to the rise of towns        andrepresentation, to political communication and shifting gender dynamics. The book        closes by examining the reasons for the decline of hostageship in the Early Modern        era, and the rise the modern variety of hostageship that was addressed by the        Nuremberg tribunals and the United Nations in the twentieth century.

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