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Bloody Constraint: War & Chivalry in Shakespeare

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Bloody Constraint: War & Chivalry in Shakespeare - Meron, Theodor
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Chivalry, one of Shakespeare's central themes, retains its pertinence and topicality in our rules for international humanitarian law and the conduct of war. Against a background of Medieval and Renaissance sources as well as Shakespeare's historical and dramatic realms, Professor Meron considers the ways in which law, chivalry, morality, conscience, and state necessity are deployed in Shakespeare to promote a society in which soldiers behave humanely and leaders are held to high standards of civilized behavior. In doing so, ...

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Bloody Constraint: War & Chivalry in Shakespeare 2000, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780195144062

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