The Peace of God : : Social Violence and Religious Response in France around the Year 1000 /

The Peace of God : : Social Violence and Religious Response in France around the Year 1000 / / ed. by Thomas Head, Richard Landes.

During the dissolution of the former Carolingian Empire, warfare and plunder went unchecked. An innovative response to this violence was the Church-led initiative known as the Peace of God, perhaps history's earliest mass peace movement. In the thirteen essays collected here, leading scholars c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Callahan, Daniel F.,
Debord, Andre,
Goetz, Hans-Werner,
Head, Thomas,
Koziol, Geoffrey,
Landes, Richard,
Lauranson-Rosaz, Christian,
Lobrichon, Guy,
Magnou-Nortier, Elisabeth,
Moore, R.I.,
Paxton, Frederick S.,
Remensnyder, Amy G.,
Topfer, Bernhard,
HerausgeberIn:
Head, Thomas,
Landes, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1992
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 3 maps, 1 graph
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Citations and Sources
  • Introduction
  • 1. History, Historians, and the Peace of God
  • 2. The Cult of Relics and Pilgrimage in Burgundy and Aquitaine at the Time of the Monastic Reform
  • 3. The Enemies of the Peace: Reflections on a Vocabulary, 500-1100
  • 4. The Chiaroscuro of Heresy: Early Eleventh-Century Aquitaine as Seen from Auxerre
  • 5. Peace from the Mountains: The Auvergnat Origins of the Peace of God
  • 6. The Castellan Revolution and the Peace of God in Aquitaine
  • 7. The Peace of God and the Cult of the Saints in Aquitaine in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
  • 8. Between Aristocracy and Heresy: Popular Participation in the Limousin Peace of God, 994-1033
  • 9. The Judgment of God: Andrew of Fleury's Account of the Peace League of Bourges
  • 10. Monks, Feuds, and the Making of Peace in Eleventh- Century Flanders
  • 11. Protection of the Church, Defense of the Law, and Reform: On the Purposes and Character of the Peace of God, 989-1038
  • 12. Pollution, Purity, and Peace: An Aspect of Social Reform between the Late Tenth Century and 1076
  • Postscript: The Peace of God and the Social Revolution
  • Appendix A: Selected Documents on the Peace of God in Translation
  • Appendix B: "To Control Military Requisitions": A Letter from Hincmar of Reims to Charles the Bald (859)
  • Appendix C: The Latin Texts of the "Letter" of Heribert
  • Contributors
  • Index

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