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A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom

Robert E. Lerner

Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 292.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2009-101

Published: 01 April 2010

...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...

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HOW TO END HOLY WAR: Negotiations and Peace Treaties between Muslims and Crusaders in the Latin East

Yvonne Friedman

Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 83–103.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818037

Published: 01 January 2015

...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...

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The Islamic-Israelite World

Sean McMeekin

Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 275–282.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2073260

Published: 01 April 2013

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

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SANCTA INDIFFERENTIA AND ADIAPHORA : “Holy Indifference” and “Things Indifferent”

G. R. Evans

Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (1): 23–38.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2008-040

Published: 01 January 2009

... of The asreformers have done,usually toof forteachings the Jesus areturn and The Holy War...

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SUSPICIONS OF PEACE IN MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN DISCOURSE

Jehangir Yezdi Malegam

Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 236–252.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2872355

Published: 01 April 2015

..., 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 justified conflict is written into several of the most cherished irenic documents of our time...

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Introduction: Greco-Latin Findings

Jeffrey M. Perl, Sara Forsdyke, Colin Davis, Richard Ned Lebow, Yvonne Friedman

Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 10–18.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2817989

Published: 01 January 2015

... — the rage for self-aggrandizement — motivate the initiators of wars. Given this assumption about motive, the Greco-Latin tradition tends also to regard negotiations based on the rational discussion of material interests as unlikely to succeed. Success requires symbolic and ritual gestures — acts of self...

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Curriculum Vitae: An Authorial Aside

Caroline Walker Bynum

Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (1): 1–12.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-9-1-1

Published: 01 January 2003

.... And then: Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Signiﬁ- cance of Food to Medieval Women, not—despite the title—so much about food as COMMON KNOWLEDGE COMMON about women’s religiosity. Rejecting both a long and misogynistic tradition of denigrating women’s...

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Of Music, Morals, and Salads: The Uses of Harmony in Imperial Prague

Erika Supria Honisch

Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (2): 280–308.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8906173

Published: 01 May 2021

...Erika Supria Honisch Abstract This article uses music and the discourse about music to understand the practice of tolerance in Prague during the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War. Drawing on Las ensaladas (Prague, 1581), a collection of vernacular polyphony compiled...

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