OPEN ACCESS: Frederik DHONDT "Treaty on the Establishment of Peace Throughout Christendom (1464)", in: Hélène RUIZ FABRI (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law]

 


Prof. Frederik Dhondt published an entry in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law in 2021 on the 1464 draft treaty of pacification proposed by Georg of Podebrad, King of Hungary. 

Due to the move of the whole Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law to open access, the final version can at present be consulted by all with Oxford University Press.

Abstract:

The ‘Treaty on the Establishment of Peace Throughout Christendom’ is a draft treaty proposed in 1463 and 1464 by king George of Poděbrad of Bohemia (1420-1471) to the Kings of Hungary, Poland and France, as well as to the Republic of Venice. Formulated as a plan for a crusade against the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (1432-1481), who had taken Constantinople in 1453, the text foresees the creation of an international organisation comprising all European sovereigns, in equal ‘universal fraternity’. The use of force between members of this new organisation would be strictly forbidden. A parlamentum (tribunal) ought to arbitrate quarrels between sovereigns.

Read more here: DOI 10.1093/law-mpeipro/e3721.013.3721.

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