The Sleep of Behemoth : : Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 / / Jehangir Malegam.
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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Revising Peace: Reform and the Millennium
- 2. The Papal Reform: Peace Espoused and Repudiated
- 3. False Sacraments: Violence, Captivity, and Insurrection
- 4. Dueling Sacraments: The Communion of Judas Iscariot
- 5. Inner Peace: Discord, Discretion, and Discipline
- 6. Exporting Peace: Ecclesiology and Evangelism
- 7. Communes: Inversions of Peace
- 8. Disciplining Behemoth: Provisions for Secular Peace
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index