What is it about?
Shows how the 'laws of war' in the Middle Ages were not really 'laws' but strategic rules to help enforce discipline and increase military effectiveness. Focuses on ecclesiastical immunity.
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Why is it important?
Highlights that ecclesiastical immunity in medieval warfare was only respected on strategic, not normative, grounds.
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This page is a summary of: A Law of War? English Protection and Destruction of Ecclesiastical Property during the Fourteenth Century, The English Historical Review, November 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/ehr/cet277.
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