Peace Treaties and International Law in European History: From the Late Middle Ages to World War One

1. Introduction
2. Peace treaties from Lodi to Westphalia
3. Peace treaties from Westphalia to the Revolutionary Era
4. Peace treaties from Paris to Versailles
5. Vestigia pacis. The Roman peace treaty: structure or event?
6. The influence of medieval Roman law on peace treaties
7. The kiss of peace
8. Martinus Garatus Laudensis on treaties
9. The importance of medieval canon law and the scholastic tradition for the emergence of the early modern international legal order
10. The Peace Treaties of Westphalia as an instance of the reception of Roman law
11. Peace treaties, bonne foi and European civility in the Enlightenment
12. Peace, security and international organisations: the German international lawyers and the Hague Conferences
13. Consent and caution: Lassa Oppenheim and his reaction to World War I
14. Talking peace: social science, peace negotiations and the structure of politics
15. The ius foederis re-examined: the Peace of Westphalia and the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire
16. The peace treaties of the Ottoman Empire with European Christian powers
17. Peace and prosperity: commercial aspects of peacemaking
18. The 1871 Peace Treaty between France and Germany and the 1919 Peace Treaty of Versailles
19. Conclusion

Specialists from every European country analyze peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the 1919 Peace of Versailles in this collection. Emphasizing the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the influence of older, Roman and medieval, concepts on modern practices, the book recalls the reader to before the epochal Peace Treaties of Westphalia of 1648. Its broader perspective allows for a reassessment of the role of the sovereign state in the modern international legal order.