Cover illustration: Detail from a motive (initial I) from Flateyjarbók (GkS 1005 fol.), fourteenth century. With kind permission of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Iceland.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, 1958– editor. | Orning, Hans Jacob, editor.
Title: Medieval and modern civil wars : a comparative perspective / edited by Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Hans Jacob Orning.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Series: [History of warfare, 1385–7827 ; 135] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021027170 (print) | LCCN 2021027171 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004461475 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004463981 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Civil war—Scandinavia—History. | Scandinavia—History—To 1397. | Scandinavia—Politics and government.
Classification: LCC DL61 .M43 2021 (print) | LCC DL61 (ebook) | DDC 355.02/18—dc23
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ISSN 1385-7827
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