Publication subTitle :Surprise, Deception and the Normative Framework of European War in the Later Middle Ages
Publication series :1
Publisher: Brill
Publication year: 2009
E-ISBN: 9789047424857
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004171534
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9789004171534
Subject: K5 European History
Language: ENG
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Description
By exploring the moral and legal context of medieval strategic thinking, this work explains how the use of surprise and deception could, in certain circumstances, be reconciled with the practise of chivalric warfare.
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