Armsbearing and the clergy in the history and canon law of Western Christianity /

In the first millennium the Christian Church forbade its clergy from bearing arms. In the mid-eleventh century the ban was reiterated many times at the highest levels: all participants in the battle of Hastings, for example, who had drawn blood were required to do public penance. Yet over the next t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Duggan, Lawrence G., 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2013.
Series:JSTOR EBA.
Subjects:
600-1500
Canon law > History.
Church history.
Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
War > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History.
Clergy > Political activity.
Droit canonique > Histoire.
Église > Histoire.
Église > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Clergé > Activité politique.
church history.
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
RELIGION > Christian Church > Canon & Ecclesiastical Law.
Canon law.
Church history > Middle Ages.
War > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. Julius Exclusus?
  • Quot homines, tot sententiae
  • The canon law of the Roman Catholic Church on clerical armsbearing (I) : to the twelfth century
  • The canon law of the Roman Catholic Church (II) : 'revolution in law', ca. 1120-1317
  • The canon law of the Roman Catholic Church (III) : since 1317
  • Armsbearing in the English legal tradition
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography. Index.

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