...Robert E. Lerner Mark Gregory Pegg, A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 253 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Brigitte Le Juez...

...Yvonne Friedman Crusaders and Muslims each applied to their conflict in the Latin East a doctrine of holy war. Although so ideological a stance toward each other would seem to preclude peacemaking efforts, some 120 treaties were signed between parties to the conflict during the two-century Latin...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Freeman Charles , Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2011 ), 306 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 LITTLE...

...G. R. Evans Quietism brought the individual to a state of “holy indifference” where nothing mattered; particularities of Christian belief and practice, pleasures of the senses, personal desires, all vanished in the utter self-abandonment of the soul in the presence of God. The “resigned” soul...

...Peter Burke Larry Silver, Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 352 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War...

...Jeffrey F. Hamburger Jaroslav Folda, Crusader Art in the Holy Land, from the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187–1291 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 785 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE...

...Jerome Braun Terry Eagleton, Holy Terror (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 148 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Gabriel Piterberg, An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play...

...David Blackbourn Whaley Joachim , Germany and the Holy Roman Empire , vol. 1 , Maximilian to the Peace of Westphalia, 1493 – 1648 , 722 pp., and vol. 2 , The Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich, 1648 – 1806 , 752 pp. ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012...

... no real competition as a school for censorship in the West. After the mid-sixteenth century, Rome and local jurisdictions promulgated a series of Indexes of Prohibited Books—the last general Index was printed as late as 1948. The Master of the Sacred Palace in the Vatican, the Holy Roman Office...

...Mordechai Bar-On Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008), 245 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The...

...Henry Kamen Stanley G. Payne, The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), 400 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Gabriel Piterberg, An...

... cleansing positively as violence regarded Jacobins, the especially French revolutionaries, peoples. liberate and powers established the overturn could war Only Alliance. Holy the and of Metternich aim the was which quo,maintaining status the was all, Peace, after sorts...

...Daniel McKay This article surveys the Far East prisoner of war novel from its inception in English public school narratives and racially inflected character profiles to the more critically engaged publications of the last two decades. During the latter period, linear reconstructions of imprisonment...

...Richard Ned Lebow This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Peace by Other Means” argues that the drive for self-esteem, achieved by gaining honor or standing, has been a root cause of violent conflict and war throughout history and that peace-making that does not take account of what...

... that the condition among nonstate societies was and is neither one of permanent war nor one of permanent peace but one of permanent peacelessness . Nonstate societies recognize the danger of warfare and take measures to reduce its likelihood, or at least try to mitigate its destructiveness. This...

...Alick Isaacs This memoir is a detailed and reflective (though highly subjective) account of the author's experiences in the summer of 2006. Starting with the outbreak of the Second Lebanese War, it moves on to describe his call-up and conscription, border service at the IDF outpost in Metulla and...

... to spearhead a German “holy war” mission to Persiato and mission “holywar” aGerman spearhead to   or Ottoman...

... say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor.” Gabriele suggests that, in both cases, the speakers were rejecting a medieval understanding of holy war and turning to an older doctrine, as articulated by Saint Augustine.2 This Augustinian understanding of...

..., collected by Boas and made famous by Lévi-Strauss; the story of Sakuntala, from a Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata ; and Remarque's war novel of 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front . In the first case, no resolution of the conflicts comprising the narrative is required, because in mythical thinking...

..., and survivors as they were formulated during the last years of World War II and after the establishment of the State of Israel. Behind these images stood historical, concrete human beings who were classified according to concepts supplied by Zionist and historical Jewish culture, in which activism vs...