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

Between Sword and Prayer is a broad-ranging anthology focused on the involvement of medieval clergy in warfare and a variety of related military activities. The essays address, on the one hand, the issue of clerical participation in combat, in organizing military campaigns, and in armed defense, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kotecki, Radosław (Editor ), Maciejewski, Jacek (Editor ), Ott, John S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2018].
Colección:Explorations in medieval culture ; v. 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 León / 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.