FitzPatrick, Elizabeth. Journal of the North Atlantic 801 (April 2015): 52–68. This article covers the concept of regular, public assemblies in the medieval Gaelic tradition and culture. Within its wide scope, this…
Musson, A.J. The English Historical Review 117, no. 470 (2002). This article sets out a medieval, English system of peace-keeping, which worked through a variety of bodies, from the divinely-ordained royal powers of…
Riley, Patrick. World Affairs 137, no. 3 (1974): 186–94. This article sets out the Abbé de St Pierre’s eighteenth century plan for ‘perpetual peace in Europe’, which Riley recognises as ‘the first comprehensive plan…
Wormald, Jenny. Past and Present 87, no. 1 (1980): 54–97. This article is an interesting depiction of the aftermath of Anglo-Scottish conflicts, under the focus of proper retribution and the maintenance of a…
MacKinney, Loren C. Speculum 5, no. 2 (April 1930): 181–206. This article examines the peace committees which began to crop up in eleventh-century France, creating a refreshing depiction of an orderly France, despite…
Dunnigan, Sara, and Elizabeth Ewan. Renaissance and Reformation 30, no. 4 (2006): 3–12. This chapter serves as an introduction to ”Scotland 1550-1650”, a general book on Early Modern Scotland. This introduction is…
MacInnes, Iain A. In Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame, edited by Larissa Tracy. Brill, 2019. MacInnes dives into the aftermath of Anglo-Scottish war, a period which almost seems to involve more…
Cavell, Megan. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114, no. 3 (2015): 355–72. This article studies the use of the word ‘FriÞuwebban’ in Old English poetics, which has widely been translated as a word for…
Melko, Matthew. Peace Research 28, no. 2 (1996): 49–54. In this article, Melko engages with the statement ‘peace is normal, war is exceptional’ in an attempt to prove that even during historical periods of high…