An examination of written and other responses to conflict in a variety of forms and genres, from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century. War and violence too

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of t

Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence

The fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt long after peace is proclaimed. This challenges the anthropologists who write of w