ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY: "Treaty on the Establishment of Peace Throughout Christendom (1464)", in: Hélène RUIZ FABRI (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [Oxford Public International Law] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)

 

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1 The Treaty on the Establishment of Peace Throughout Christendom (‘Treaty’ or ‘Peace Plan’) is a draft treaty that was proposed in 1463 and 1464 by King George of Podebrad 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 provided for the creation of an institutional framework comprising all European sovereigns, in equal ‘universal fraternity’, and has been portrayed by late...

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