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dc.contributor.authorCox, Rory
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-26T00:32:07Z
dc.date.available2020-03-26T00:32:07Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier256025768
dc.identifierdf87a573-141e-469e-b5ce-32936b6c3db0
dc.identifier85119339662
dc.identifier.citationCox , R 2021 , ' Approaches to pre-modern war and ethics: some comparative and multi-disciplinary perspectives ' , Global Intellectual History , vol. 6 , no. 5 , pp. 592-613 . https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2018.1527709en
dc.identifier.issn2380-1883
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:D33CA909A7711E36EAE4069FF4A9CA95
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-5380-6230/work/73293331
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/19711
dc.description.abstractWar is both violent and significantly ordered. As an intrinsically social phenomenon, war is deeply affected by all manner of socio-cultural norms and 'ethics' that shape the conceptualisation and experience of war, from justifying it to condemning it, from formulating grand strategy to engaging in individual hand-to-hand combat, and from understanding what it means to achieve victory or suffer defeat. How, then, should scholars approach the study of war and ethics, particularly from the perspective of intellectual history? When we still lack a consensus definition of what war is, much less a consensus about how war has shaped and been shaped by ethical thought, this is far from a simple question. This essay reflects on how a comparative and multi-disciplinary approach to the study of pre-modern war and ethics may encourage historians to ask new questions of the subject. I consider the methodology and theoretical foundations of four disciplines - comparative history, anthropology, sociology, and psychology - in order to highlight how a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary approach can enhance our understanding of the complex historical relationship between war and ethics.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofGlobal Intellectual Historyen
dc.subjectEthicsen
dc.subjectWaren
dc.subjectViolenceen
dc.subjectComparative historyen
dc.subjectAnthropologyen
dc.subjectSociologyen
dc.subjectD111 Medieval Historyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutionsen
dc.subject.lccD111en
dc.titleApproaches to pre-modern war and ethics: some comparative and multi-disciplinary perspectivesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Historyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Legal and Constitutional Researchen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studiesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/23801883.2018.1527709
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2020-03-26


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