Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period : : Perspectives from Europe and Japan / / ed. by Fernanda Alfieri, Takashi Jinno.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Alfieri, Fernanda,; Ciappelli, Giovanni,; Ferente, Serena,; Hirayama, Atsuko,; Ishiguro, Morihisa,; Jinno, Takashi,; Kuroda, Yuga,; Lavenia, Vincenzo,; Minagawa, Taku,; Takeda, Kazuhisa,; Tonelli, Debora,
• HerausgeberIn: Alfieri, Fernanda,; Jinno, Takashi,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 197 p.)

The volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early modern period, involving European and Japanese scholars. It investigates the ideological foundations of the relationship between violence and religion and their development in a varied corpus of sources (political and theological treatises, correspondence of missionaries, pamphlets, and images).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Seminal Ideas -- From Divine Violence to Religious Violence -- Holy Scripture, Theology, and Violence -- “Nothing violent can last”: Nature, Violence, and Political Legitimacy in a Scholastic Formula -- Tyrannicide as an Act of Divine Justice -- II. Changing Meanings -- “Violentia” and the Devil -- Violence and Covenant in Machiavelli’s Thinking -- Peace According to the Political Theologians of the Holy Roman Empire at the End of the Thirty Years’ War -- III. Theories and Practices -- Reconquista and Muslim Vassals -- The Global Expansion of Christian Violence in the Old and the New World -- Religion and Violence in the Christian Mission in Early Modern Japan -- The Privateering by the Knights of Saint Stephen against Turks and Barbary Pirates -- Contributors