Oorlog om Hagestein (1419-1422). Het grijze gebied tussen publieke en private oorlogvoering in de late Middeleeuwen.

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Buizert, Jan Willem (2021)

Oorlog om Hagestein (1419-1422). Het grijze gebied tussen publieke en private oorlogvoering in de late Middeleeuwen.

Research master thesis | History (research) (MA)

To the modern observer there seems to have been quite a large grey area between private and public warfare in the late middle-ages. It is often quite hard to distinguish between violence committed in name of a public authority and violence on a private title. This thesis uses a case-study of a violent conflict in the border region between Holland and the Sticht (Utrecht) ca. 1420, to explore if it is possible and useful to distinguish between the private and public elements in late medieval warfare. A large number of the border lords where able to wage war under their own banner for their own goals, and without guidance or direction of the central authority. Based on my findings I argue that private and public forms of warfare went hand in hand in the late middle-ages. Princes where more interested in channelling this violence towards their opponents, than in establishing a monopoly on violence.

Frederik van Blankenheim