Hostages in the Middle Ages
| Titel: | Hostages in the Middle Ages / Adam J. Kosto |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2012 |
| Umfang: | XV, 281 S. : Kt. ; 24x16x2 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780199651702 ; 0199651701 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Kurzbeschreibung Ausführliche Beschreibung |
X
- List of Maps
- p. ix
- List of Tables
- p. xi
- Abbreviations
- p. xiii
- Note on Citations
- p. xvii
- 1
- Hostages in the Middle Ages: Problems and Perspectives
- p. 1
- A Very Short History of Hostages
- p. 2
- Hostages and Historians
- p. 5
- Finding Hostages in the Medieval Sources
- p. 9
- Outline
- p. 19
- 2
- Varieties and Logics of Medieval Hostageship
- p. 24
- Varieties of Hostageship
- p. 24
- The Logics of Hostageship
- p. 34
- Hostages and the Theory of Contracts
- p. 41
- Appendix: Execution of Hostages
- p. 49
- 3
- Hostages in the Early Middle Ages: Communication, Conversion, and Structures of Alliance
- p. 53
- Hostages and Political Communication
- p. 55
- The Wider Impact of Hostage Agreements
- p. 61
- The Fate of Hostages: Three Episodes
- p. 62
- Early Medieval Hostageship in Context
- p. 68
- 4
- Hostages in the Later Middle Ages: Representation, Finance, and the Laws of War
- p. 78
- Female Hostages
- p. 83
- Hostages as Representatives
- p. 92
- Hostages and the Laws of War
- p. 99
- Conditional Respite
- p. 99
- Conditional Release and Ransom
- p. 110
- Financial Transactions and the Development of Rules
- p. 121
- 5
- Conditional Hostages
- p. 130
- Peace Texts
- p. 132
- The Earliest Conditional Hostages
- p. 135
- International Treaties
- p. 148
- Hostages for Monetary Debts
- p. 157
- 6
- The KingÆs Ransom
- p. 163
- Captive Crusader Kings: Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1123) and Louis IX of France (1250)
- p. 166
- Richard I of England (Treaty of Worms, 1193)
- p. 171
- Charles II of Naples (Treaty of Canfranc, 1288)
- p. 177
- David II of Scotland (Treaty of Berwick, 1357)
- p. 182
- James I of Scotland (Treaty of London, 1424)
- p. 192
- 7
- Hostageship Interpreted, from the Middle Ages to the Age of Terrorism
- p. 199
- Medieval Views of Hostageship
- p. 200
- From Vitoria to Nuremberg and Beyond
- p. 214
- Works Cited
- p. 227
- Index
- p. 261
