HIST 2101H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: French Revolution, Jus Ad Bellum, Just War Theory

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September 6 lecture: thinking about war in late medieval europe. Laboratories: peasants and labourers: make sure that people are fed, work in the ields and make things in the city, don"t get given weapons because of their large numbers, carl von clausewitz (1780-1831) : on war (1832-1835) Prussian, wrote a book about the forms on war. Established the noion of 2 kinds of war: absolute wars: fought for the eliminaion of the poliic opponents (an ideal, could be sought but never atainable) Limited wars: fought to obtain favourable terms of peace, war up to the french revoluion were limited. The 1st estate was now a part of warfare: war"s peculiar preconcepions , the fog or fricion of war. The evoluion of just war theory: classical greece and rome. Fought in the summer months, with spears and no clothes. Internal wars between each other, external wars with outside opponents: the common customs of the hellenes .

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