Rory Cox

Biographic Data

ID3780968
NAMERory Cox
GIVEN NAMESRory
FAMILY NAMECox
SIGNATURECOX R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of St Andrews
ORCID0000-0002-5380-6230
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Origins of the Just War

    Rory CoxBOOKOrigins of the Just War2023

    Origins of the Just War* reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition. In this incisive and elegantly written book, Rory Cox traces the earliest ideas concerning the complex relationship between war, ethi…

  • Violence and Order Past and Present

    Warren Brown, Warren C Brown et al.ARTICLEGlobal Intellectual History2023References: 10

  • Contesting Torture

    Rory Cox, Faye Donnelly et al.BOOKContesting Torture2022

  • Approaches to pre-modern war and ethics

    Rory CoxARTICLEGlobal Intellectual History2018References: 17

    War is both violent and significantly ordered. As an intrinsically social phenomenon, war is deeply affected by all manner of socio-cultural norms and ‘ethics’ that shape the conceptualisation and experience of war, from justifying it to condemning it, from formulating grand strategy to engaging in individual hand-to-hand combat, and from understanding what it means to achieve victory or suffer defeat. How, then, should scholars approach the stud…

  • Historicizing waterboarding as a severe torture norm

    Open AccessRory CoxARTICLEInternational Relations2018

    The debate on waterboarding and the wider debate on torture remains fiercely contested. President Trump and large sections of the US public continue to support the use of waterboarding and other so-called 'enhanced interrogation techniques' as part of the 'War on Terror', thus putting the anti-torture norm under pressure. This article demonstrates that the re-imagining of waterboarding as 'torture-lite' is contradicted by the long history of wate…

  • Medieval foundations of international relations

    Rory CoxARTICLEGlobal Intellectual History2017

  • Expanding the History of the Just War

    Rory CoxARTICLEInternational Studies Quarterly2017Cited by: 11References: 28

    This article expands our understanding of the historical development of just war thought by offering the first detailed analysis of the ethics of war in ancient Egypt. It revises the standard history of the just war tradition by demonstrating that just war thought developed beyond the boundaries of Europe and existed many centuries earlier than the advent of Christianity or even the emergence of Greco-Roman thought on the relationship between war…

  • The Medieval Way of War

    Open AccessRory CoxARTICLEThe English Historical Review2016

    As with most Festschriften, this volume—published in honour of Bernard S. Bachrach, a prolific and widely respected scholar of medieval military history—brings together an eclectic range of essays. As the editor, Gregory Halfond, explains, the seventeen essays ‘embrace the interdisciplinarity and topical diversity’ (p. 4) that characterise Bachrach’s work and are divided into three parts: ‘The history and historiography of war in Late Antique and…

  • Chivalry and the Ideals of Knighthood in France during the Hundred Years War, by Craig Taylor

    Open AccessRory CoxARTICLEThe English Historical Review2015

    Journal Article Chivalry and the Ideals of Knighthood in France during the Hundred Years War, by Craig Taylor Get access Chivalry and the Ideals of Knighthood in France during the Hundred Years War, by Craig Taylor (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2013; pp. xvi + 345. £65). Rory Cox Rory Cox University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 544, June 2015,…

  • Peacemaking in the Middle Ages

    Open AccessRory CoxARTICLEThe English Historical Review2013

    Journal Article Peacemaking in the Middle Ages: Principles and Practice, by Jenny Benham Get access Peacemaking in the Middle Ages: Principles and Practice, by Jenny Benham (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2011; pp. 250. £60). Rory Cox Rory Cox University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 532, June 2013, Pages 650–652, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ce…

  • A Law of War? English Protection and Destruction of Ecclesiastical Property during the Fourteenth Century

    Open AccessRory CoxARTICLEThe English Historical Review2013Cited by: 3

    Historians—both those who concentrate on military history and those who touch upon it in passing—often refer to the ‘laws of war’ in the middle ages without any clear idea of what this term actually implies. Ecclesiastical immunity during warfare has long been held as one such ‘law of war’; this article, however, questions the validity of identifying late medieval ideas of ecclesiastical immunity during wartime as valid ‘law’. The article focuses…

  • Asymmetric warfare and military conduct in the Middle Ages

    Rory CoxARTICLEJournal of Medieval History2012Cited by: 2

    The concept of asymmetric warfare is a useful analytical tool for examining military conduct, especially acts of excessive military brutality, during the Middle Ages. A broader sense of asymmetric warfare is required: one that includes not just politico-military asymmetries, but also social, legal, religious and ethnic dimensions. A typology of military asymmetries is proposed and it is demonstrated how these differences might radically affect th…