Negotiating violence : Papal pardons and everyday life in East Central Europe (1450 - 1550) / Gabriella Erdélyi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erdélyi, Gabriella, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Europe, Eastern--History.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Europe, Central--History.

Pardon--Europe, Eastern--History.

Pardon.

Pardon--Europe, Central--History.

Church history.

History.

Europe, Eastern--Church history.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Central--Church history.

Europe, Central.

Central Europe.

Eastern Europe.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, ©2018.

Summary:

This book examines the ways in which ordinary people used a transnational papal court of law for disputing their private local hostilities and for negotiating their social status and identities. Following the career and routine crossovers of runaway friars, the book offers vivid insights into the late medieval culture of violence, honour, emotions, learning and lay-clerical interactions. The story plays itself out in the large composite state of the Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia, which collapses under the Ottomans' sword in front of the readers' eyes. The bottom-up approach of the Christian-Muslim military conflict renders visible the rationalities of those commoners who voluntarily crossed the religious boundary, while the multi-tiered story convincingly drives home the argument that the motor of social and religious change was lay society rather than the clergy in this turbulent age.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-236) and index.

ISBN:

9789004361157

9004361154

OCLC:

1023608998