The Warfare Ideology of Ordeal: Another Form of Just war Thinking? : Theory and Practice from the Eearly Middle Ages

Boda, Mihály (2022) The Warfare Ideology of Ordeal: Another Form of Just war Thinking? : Theory and Practice from the Eearly Middle Ages. JOURNAL OF MILITARY ETHICS. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1502-7570 (print); 1502-7589 (online) (In Press)

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Abstract

Studying military thinking and military history of the Middle Ages one can observe many forms of warfare ideologies. Three of these ideologies are the holy war ideology, the ideology of ordeal (or iudicium Dei), and the traditional just war theory. Every such ideology has the common character of a stronger or weaker link to concepts of Christian God, religion, or church. Beyond this common character these ideologies also vary from each other characteristically. The holy war ideology includes first of all the concept of God, the traditional just war theory applies the concept of justice, and the ideology of ordeal relies both on the concept of God and of justice. This paper purposes to present the ideology of ordeal as a form of just war thinking, and to describe its features through historical examples, in themselves, and in contrast to other ideologies.

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