Late Medieval Attitudes on the Evil in Warfare: HonorÃ© Bouvetâs Arbre des Batailles and Its Sources

Zeynep KocabÄ±yÄ±koÄlu ÃeÃ§en

Late Medieval Attitudes on the Evil in Warfare: HonorÃ© Bouvetâs Arbre des Batailles and Its Sources

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Zeynep KocabÄ±yÄ±koÄlu ÃeÃ§en

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The French prior HonorÃ© Bouvetâs Arbre des Batailles, published in 1387, deals mainly with the laws of warfare as they were found in the late fourteenth century. The book, drawing basically on the Italian lawyer Giovanni da Legnanoâs highly academic work De Bello, de Represaliis et de Duello and making it comprehensible to a lay audience, became a guidebook on the conduct of warfare during the fifteenth century. In his work, Bouvet, before laying out the laws - or rather the unwritten codes and morals - that should be observed by knights and other men-at-arms in the conduct of warfare, starts with an explanation of the nature of warfare and why men fight battles with each other. The essential justification for warfare is the evidence found for its origins in the Bible. As war is not only permitted but also ordained by divine law, Bouvet maintains that war cannot be an evil thing. Instead, he views it as a mechanism of justice to put wrong to right. These ideas are also supported by natural law which presumes the tendency of everything to contradict its evil form. Hence, it is not the nature of war but only certain practices that makes it perceived as evil. This chapter will look at Bouvetâs view on the nature of warfare under these broad guidelines, and treat them as a part of the greater tradition of medieval thought that was fed simultaneously by both pagan and Christian writings. Particularly, it will try to visualise the late medieval outlook on the evil in warfare.

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Concerning Evil

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