

Henry, his knights and clergymen classify the campaign against France as a “just war” according to medieval legal and moral standards.Ībbildung in dieser Leseprobe nicht enthalten “jus in bello” = laws governing the conduct of war (e.g. “jus ad bellum” = criteria deciding on the right to resort to war (e.g. In the Middle Ages war was, at least concerning political theory and rhetoric, governed by written and unwritten laws and conventions originating in Christian theology, philosophy and chivalric codes of honour. Shakespeare’s Henry V: Glorification or criticism of war? Literature The Legal and Moral Legitimation of War in Shakespeare’s Henry

Critical aspects in Henry V: The atrocity and futility of war

II.2 “jus in bello”: Chivalric rules of behaviour in war “jus ad bellum”: The medieval concept of the “just war” Shakespeare’s Henry V : Glorification or criticism of war?
