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Ecclesia Et Violentia: Violence Against the Church and Violence Within the Church in the Middle Ages

Ecclesia Et Violentia: Violence Against the Church and Violence Within the Church in the Middle Ages

Kotecki, Radoslaw
Maciejewski, Jacek

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryReligion General General Christianity

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ISBN10: 1443866598
ISBN13: 9781443866590
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages: 375
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Ecclesia et Violentia is an interdisciplinary anthology that explores the phenomenon of violence in relation to the medieval Church, as well as within the structures of that institution. The volume provides a clearer understanding of hostile and violent acts against both religious institutions and clergy, and explores the interpersonal aggression between clergymen or forms of violent behaviour of medieval clerics. It investigates, furthermore, the role of violence in maintaining discipline within religious communities, as well as religious, legal and cultural interpretations of the aforementioned issues. However, despite the many points of view expressed here, the central question the authors reconcile is how the phenomenon of violence interacted with the most important medieval institution, and official Church thinking regarding concepts such as power, rank, feudal loyalty and protection and ownership. Through the geographical diversity of the contributions and the variety of disciplinary perspectives, this book highlights how important violence was in the life of the clergy and how it formed an integral part of the legal culture and social bonds in many regions of medieval Europe.

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