On 4/24/07, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
speaking of which, I remember when I took late medieval European economic history, that the prof. told us that one military leader conquered a French town and literally invoked "cannon law" to justify it.
For most people other than pacifists in the West, their conception of just war theory in part comes from the Christian as well as Roman tradition, regarding just cause, legitimate authority, justifiable means, etc. I doubt that we have gone very far from what got worked out in those traditions. -- Yoshie
