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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erdélyi, Gabriella.

Series:

Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 213.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pardon--Europe, Eastern--History.

Pardon.

Pardon--Europe, Central--History.

Europe, Eastern--Church history.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Central--Church history.

Europe, Central.

Catholic Church--Europe, Eastern--History.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Europe, Central--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

Negotiating Violence 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.

Contents:

Introduction

Negotiating Apostasy

The Gates of Upward Social Mobility

From Savage to Civilized: Village Schools and Student Life

Life Outside the Walls: Clergymen on the Road

The Heyday of Popular Culture: The Shared Time and Space of Laity and Clergy

Contested Coexistence: Lay-Clerical Disputes and Their Settlement

Tales of a Peasant Revolt

Shifting Identities in the Christian-Muslim Contact Zone

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-36126-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004361263 DOI