Medieval and Modern Civil Wars: A Comparative Perspective

Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1 Constant Crisis
Chapter 2 Who Is the Enemy? Multipolar Micropolitics
Chapter 3 Sverris Saga: A Manifesto for a New Political Order
Chapter 4 The War, and What Is Mine: Private Ownership in the Civil Wars in Norway and Denmark in the High Middle Ages
Chapter 5 The Contingent State between Ideal and Practice
Chapter 6 Peace: How to Stop Fighting, Win Friends, and Influence People
Chapter 7 Re-thinking “Rebellion” and “Civil War” in Medieval England: The War of the Son against the Father (1173–74)
Chapter 8 The Formation of Trust: On the History of an Elementary Category of Peacebuilding
Chapter 9 The Rise and Fall of the Leviathan: A Juxtaposition of Pre-state and Post-state Wars
Chapter 10 Reflections on the Political Theology of Conflict: From Medieval Scandinavia to the Global Future
Index