Considerations on the Appearance and Development of Humanitarian Legislative Norms in the Framework of International Relations during the Middle Ages
Considerations on the Appearance and Development of Humanitarian Legislative Norms in the Framework of International Relations during the Middle Ages

Summary/Abstract: During the Middle Ages, war did not aim at glory, but interests, and the peace state was not considered honourable, but humiliating, as initially, the causes of a war could be: the obligation to avenge an offence or a crime, the conflicts between suzerains and vassals, the campaigns against some cities or ending rebellions. Most of the time, for kings, land owners and knights, war was the best choice to prove their power and to increase their wealth. The reason was the spoils of war. However, in all those conflicts, human people were affected, thus generating the need to develop some specific norms in order to protect them.

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