Between sword and prayer : : warfare and medieval clergy in cultural perspective / / edited by Radoslaw Kotecki, Jacek Maciejewski, John S. Ott.
Between Sword and Prayer is a broad-ranging anthology focused on the involvement of medieval clergy in warfare and a variety of related military activities. The essays address, on the one hand, the issue of clerical participation in combat, in organizing military campaigns, and in armed defense, and...
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Superior document: | Explorations in Medieval Culture, Volume 3 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018. ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Explorations in medieval culture ;
Volume 3. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (546 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- The Medieval Clergy and War: A Historiographical Introduction / Radosław Kotecki , Jacek Maciejewski and John S. Ott
- Bishops as City Defenders in Early Medieval Gaul and Germany / Geneviève Bührer-Thierry
- The Frankish Church and Missionary War in Central Europe / Michael Edward Moore
- “De clericis qui pugnaverunt, aut pugnandi gratia armati fuerunt”: Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances (1048–1093) and Clerical Participation in the Battle of Hastings / Chris Dennis
- Why Study Fighting Clergy? Knight Service, Integrated War, and the Bounds of English Military History, c. 1000–1200 / Daniel Gerrard
- Orderic Vitalis and Henry of Huntingdon: Views of Clerical Warfare from Inside and Outside the Cloister / Craig M. Nakashian
- Ungirded for Battle: Knightly Conversion to Monastic Life and the Making of Weapon-Relics in the Central Middle Ages / Katherine Allen Smith
- The Episcopate and Reconquest in the Times of Alfonso VII of Castile and León / Carlos de Ayala Martínez
- The Aragonese Episcopate and the Military Campaigns of Alfonso I the Battler against Iberian Muslims / Pablo Dorronzoro Ramírez
- Italian Bishops and Warfare during the Investiture Contest: The Case of Parma / Robert Houghton
- Lions and Lambs, Wolves and Pastors of the Flock: Portraying Military Activity of Bishops in Twelfth-Century Poland / Radosław Kotecki
- A Bishop Defends His City, or Master Vincentius’s Troubles with the Military Activity of His Superior / Jacek Maciejewski
- In the Service of Bellona: Images of “Militant Abbots” in Late Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century Historiography of St. Gall (continuationes II and III of Casuum Sancti Galli) / Monika Michalska
- Bishops and Abbots at War: Some Aspects of Clerical Involvement in Warfare in Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century Livonia and Estonia / Carsten Selch Jensen
- Tending the Flock: Clergy and a Discourse of War in the Wider Hinterland of the Eastern Adriatic during the Late Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Ivan Majnarić
- “Freedom is the greatest thing”: Bishops as Fighters for Freedom in Fifteenth-Century Sweden / Anna Waśko
- The Evolution of Latin Canon Law on the Clergy and Armsbearing to the Thirteenth Century / Lawrence G. Duggan
- Select Bibliography
- Index.