Perception of War in the Late Middle Ages (on the Material of "Memoirs" of Philippe de Commines)
The «Memoirs» of de Commin reflects the changes of late medieval traditional «knightly» conception of war by new «pragmatic» one. Medieval war regarded as a joust, or war for faith and justice was displaced by war as a means of achieving political goals, the continuation of diplomacy, in which the outcome was determined not by God's will but the correlation of forces.