Jenny Benham

• The earliest arbitration treaty? A reassessment of the Anglo-Norman treaty of 991

  Open Access•Jenny Benham•ARTICLE•Historical Research•2020

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  Concluded at Rouen in March 991, the Anglo-Norman treaty has traditionally occupied a very small corner of the huge historiography for King Æthelred's reign as one of the first of the king's failures to deal with the threat of renewed viking raids. This article is an attempt to rethink the place and importance of this treaty in the scholarly literature by looking at it from the perspective of how diplomacy was practised in the earlier middle ages…

• Jehangir Yezdi Malegam. The Sleep of Behemoth

  Jenny Benham•ARTICLE•The American Historical Review•2014

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  In The Sleep of Behemoth: Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200, Jehangir Yezdi Malegam examines the often-conflicting concepts of peace among clergy and intellectuals in the central Middle Ages. The main focus of his argument is the notion that competition over the meaning and ownership of true peace and its contrast to the “sleep of Behemoth,” or false peace, shaped not only contemporary theology, conflicts, and conflict re…

• Law or treaty? Defining the edge of legal studies in the early and high medieval periods

  Open Access•Jenny Benham•ARTICLE•Historical Research•2013•Referencias: 13

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  This article is an attempt to define treaties in a legal context, thereby re-aligning the medieval historiography with its modern counterpart, and to explore some of the textual and practical possibilities and problems of this context. It considers why some treaties in the early and high middle ages have been regarded as laws while others have not and argues that while the modern concept of international law is based on the three principles of tr…

• Law or treaty? Defining the edge of legal studies in the early and high medieval periods

  Open Access•Jenny Benham•ARTICLE•Historical Research•2013•Referencias: 13

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  This article is an attempt to define treaties in a legal context, thereby re-aligning the medieval historiography with its modern counterpart, and to explore some of the textual and practical possibilities and problems of this context. It considers why some treaties in the early and high middle ages have been regarded as laws while others have not and argues that while the modern concept of international law is based on the three principles of tr…

• Jehangir Yezdi Malegam. The Sleep of Behemoth

  Jenny Benham•ARTICLE•The American Historical Review•2014

  Añadir item

  In The Sleep of Behemoth: Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200, Jehangir Yezdi Malegam examines the often-conflicting concepts of peace among clergy and intellectuals in the central Middle Ages. The main focus of his argument is the notion that competition over the meaning and ownership of true peace and its contrast to the “sleep of Behemoth,” or false peace, shaped not only contemporary theology, conflicts, and conflict re…

• The earliest arbitration treaty? A reassessment of the Anglo-Norman treaty of 991

  Open Access•Jenny Benham•ARTICLE•Historical Research•2020

  Añadir item

  Concluded at Rouen in March 991, the Anglo-Norman treaty has traditionally occupied a very small corner of the huge historiography for King Æthelred's reign as one of the first of the king's failures to deal with the threat of renewed viking raids. This article is an attempt to rethink the place and importance of this treaty in the scholarly literature by looking at it from the perspective of how diplomacy was practised in the earlier middle ages…

Law (3 obras) · Medieval Literature and History (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · History (2 obras) · Politics (2 obras) · Treaty (2 obras) · Arbitration (1 obra) · Archaeology (1 obra) · Chinese history and philosophy (1 obra) · Classics (1 obra)