Just wars and moral victories : surprise, deception and the normative framework of European war in the later Middle Ages /

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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Main Author: Whetham, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:History of warfare ; v. 55.
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Online Access:CONNECT