Between sword and prayer: warfare and medieval clergy in cultural perspective

Bishops as city defenders in early medieval Gaul and Germany / Genevieve Buhrer-Thierry -- The Frankish Church and missionary war in Central Europe / Michael Edward Moore -- "De clericis qui pugnaverunt, aut pugnandi gratia armati fuerunt": Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances (1048-1093) and cler...

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Contributors: Kotecki, Radosław (Editor) ; Maciejewski, Jacek 1962- (Editor) ; Ott, John S. 1969- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2017
In:Year: 2017
Series/Journal:Explorations in medieval culture volume 3
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Europe / Military / Clergy / History 500-1500
Further subjects:B Clergy Political activity History (Europe) To 1500
B Political Culture (Europe) History To 1500
B Church and state (Europe) History To 1500
B Christianity and politics (Europe) History To 1500
B Church History Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Military history, Medieval
B Clergy Political activity (Europe) History To 1500
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Summary:Bishops as city defenders in early medieval Gaul and Germany / Genevieve Buhrer-Thierry -- The Frankish Church and missionary war in Central Europe / Michael Edward Moore -- "De clericis qui pugnaverunt, aut pugnandi gratia armati fuerunt": Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances (1048-1093) and clerical participation in the Battle of Hastings / Chris Dennis -- Why study fighting clergy? Knight service, integrated war, and the bounds of English military history, c. 1000-1200 / Daniel Gerrard -- Orderic vitalis and Henry of Huntingdon: views of clerical warfare from inside and outside the cloister / Craig M. Nakashian -- Ungirded for battle: knightly conversion to monastic life and the making of weapon-relics in the Central Middle Ages / Katherine Allen Smith -- The Episcopate and Reconquest in the Times of Alfonso VII of Castile and Leon and reconquest in the times of Alfonso VII of Castile and Leon / Carlos de Ayala Martinez -- The Aragonese Episcopate and the military campaigns of Alfonso I the Battler against Iberian Muslims / Pablo Dorronzoro Ramirez -- Italian bishops and warfare during the investiture contest: the case of Parma / Robert Houghton -- Lions and lambs, wolves and pastors of the flock: portraying military activity of bishops in twelfth-century Poland / Radoslaw Kotecki -- A bishop defends his city, or Master Vincentius's troubles with the military activity of his superior / Jacek Maciejewski -- In the service of Bellona: images of "militant abbots" in late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century historiography of St. Gall (continuationes II and III of Casuum Sancti Galli) / Monika Michalska -- Bishops and abbots at war: some aspects of clerical involvement in warfare in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Livonia and Estonia / Carsten Selch Jensen -- Tending the flock: clergy and a discourse of war in the wider hinterland of the Eastern Adriatic during the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Ivan Majnaric -- "Freedom is the greatest thing": bishops as fighters for freedom in fifteenth-century Sweden / Anna Wasko -- The evolution of Latin canon law on the clergy and armsbearing to the thirteenth century / Lawrence G. Duggan
ISBN:9004353623
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Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004353626