Negotiation, peacemaking, and treaties: an early medieval perspective

Benham, Jenny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1959-9450 2025. Negotiation, peacemaking, and treaties: an early medieval perspective. Lazzarini, Isabella, Piffanelli, Luciano and Pirillo, Diego, eds. Reframing Treaties in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West, Oxford University Press, pp. 305-322. (10.1093/9780198958505.003.0016)

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Abstract

This chapter considers treaties as sources of international law between 700 and 1200, while also exploring the wider context of peacemaking and negotiation. By focusing on alliance building as a means of ensuring peaceful relations, it demonstrates the extent to which treaties, like their modern counterparts, were intended to be legally binding in the sense of creating rights and duties that were enforceable. The chapter further reveals how exploring treaties can be used to answer wider questions about the intersection between war and peace in the early medieval period, how deterrence worked, and mechanisms of dispute resolution. In doing so, the chapter realigns the early medieval historiography on treaties with that of the later medieval and more modern periods.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISBN:	9780198958475
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2025 11:38
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/177639

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