International norms evolve through a succession of such cycles each one drawing on previous developments and each one reshaping the normative context for subsequent actions and disputes prohibiting plunder shows how historical episodes interlinked to produce modern treaty based rules against wartime plunder of cultural treasures. Vii are the passions behind his book prohibiting plunder how norms change these passions lead him to the corpus of norms against plunder ie the norms of the laws of war providing protection for cultural property his vivid narrative starts from the norm prevalent at the time of the thirty years war that the spoils go to the victor and passes through the stage of outlawing and criminalizing plunder. Wayne sandholtz prohibiting plunder how norms change oxford oxford university press 2007 pp xi 338 6000 isbn 978 0 19 533723 5 to apply norms to facts is to interpret both norms and facts it is impossible not to inter pret umberto eco explained in his opera aperta that modern art has embraced this. Prohibiting plunder book read reviews from worlds largest community for readers for much of history the rules of war decreed that to the victor go t