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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) : 3 maps, 1 graphContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501725562
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 274.4/03 20
LOC classification:
  • BT736.4 .P4485 1992
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 consider key aspects of the movement and episodes in its history.
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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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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 consider key aspects of the movement and episodes in its history.

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