Focus on the Humanities: John D. Niles

How did the people of England in its earliest recorded period think about war, peace and the perennial issue of the containment of violence? Approaching this question as a problem in mentalities, this Focus on the Humanities lecture will attempt to come to grips with key terms in the Old English language that were used for conflict and its resolution, taking into account the assumptions that these terms presuppose, assumptions that differ markedly from ones that are generally accepted today.