TY - BOOK AU - Alfieri,Fernanda AU - Ciappelli,Giovanni AU - Ferente,Serena AU - Hirayama,Atsuko AU - Ishiguro,Morihisa AU - Jinno,Takashi AU - Kuroda,Yuga AU - Lavenia,Vincenzo AU - Minagawa,Taku AU - Takeda,Kazuhisa AU - Tonelli,Debora TI - Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Perspectives from Europe and Japan T2 - Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History , SN - 9783110639988 PY - 2021///] CY - München, Wien : PB - De Gruyter Oldenbourg, KW - HISTORY / Medieval KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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) UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643978 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110643978 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110643978/original ER -