The Sleep of Behemoth : Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 /

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In The Sleep of Behemoth, Jehangir Yezdi Malegam explores the emergence of conflicting concepts of peace in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Ever since the Early Church, Christian thinkers had conceived of their peace separate from the peace of the world, guarded by the sacraments and sha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Malegam, Jehangir Yezdi, 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Europa
Politik
Gewalttätigkeit
Friedensbemühung
Christentum
Violence > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Peace > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Christianity and politics > Catholic Church.
Christianity and politics.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Christianity and politics > Catholic Church > History > To 1500.
Christianity and politics > Europe > History > To 1500.
Violence > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History > To 1500.
Peace > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History > To 1500.
Europe.
Europe > Histoire religieuse > 476-1492.
Europe > Church history > 600-1500.
History
Church history
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Millennial reform and revisions of peace
  • The papal reform : peace espoused and repudiated
  • False sacraments : violence, captivity and insurrection
  • Dueling sacraments : the communion of Judas Iscariot
  • Mediations between self and society : peace, discretion and discipline
  • Peacemaking, ecclesiology and evangelism
  • Communes : inversions of peace
  • Disciplining Behemoth : provisions for secular peace.

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