Spies and Spying in the Fourteenth Century

Alban, John and Allmand, Christopher Thomas (2022) Spies and Spying in the Fourteenth Century. In: Aspects of War in the Late Middle Ages. Variorum Collected Studies (1st). Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 187-210. ISBN 9780367330675

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Abstract

Approved of by the Roman authors of the past spying to secure advantage in war and battle was frowned upon in societies in which the ethos of personal honour ruled. Victory won through dishonourable action was regarded as ill-won: only slowly did attitudes towards spying (thereby winning an advantage to oneself without the knowledge of the enemy) come to be accepted as the norm.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2022 13:30
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2022 13:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/88927
DOI:	10.4324/9780429317859

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