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The condition of cultural property in armed conflicts (I): From Antiquity to World War II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Extract

The condition of cultural property through the armed conflicts which have succeeded one another from Antiquity to the eve of the Second World War is no easy subject to study.

The sources available have of course made it possible to establish that from the latter part of the nineteenth century onwards, domestic and international laws have been enacted to reduce somewhat rather than prevent damage to cultural property during hostilities.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1985

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Footnotes

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Address at the Symposium organized on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Condition of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflicts, Florence, Italy, 22–24 November 1984.

References

page 72 note 1 Bouquié, J.: De la justice et de la discipline dans les armées à Rome et au Moyen Age, Bruxelles, 1884.Google Scholar

page 75 note 1 Vismara, G.: Problemi storici e istituti giuridici nella guerra altomedievale, Spoleto, 1968.Google Scholar

page 77 note 1 «Such as noblemen wage».

page 78 note 1 To wage war for loot is a sin.

page 79 note 1 Contamine, P.: Guerre, Etat et société à la fin du Moyen Age; Paris, 1972.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 80 note 1 Antonio Ruini, professor of international law at the University of Modena, in a letter to the author.