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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Head, Thomas, editor.

Landes, R. W. (Richard W.), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--France--History--To 1500.

Violence.

Peace movements--France--History--To 1500.

Peace movements.

Peace--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Peace.

France--Religious life and customs.

France.

France--Social conditions--987-1515.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 364 p. :) maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Maps

Acknowledgments

A Note on Citations and Sources

Introduction / Head, Thomas / Landes, Richard

1. History, Historians, and the Peace of God / Paxton, Frederick S.

2. The Cult of Relics and Pilgrimage in Burgundy and Aquitaine at the Time of the Monastic Reform / Topfer, Bernhard

3. The Enemies of the Peace: Reflections on a Vocabulary, 500-1100 / Magnou-Nortier, Elisabeth

4. The Chiaroscuro of Heresy: Early Eleventh-Century Aquitaine as Seen from Auxerre / Lobrichon, Guy

5. Peace from the Mountains: The Auvergnat Origins of the Peace of God / Lauranson-Rosaz, Christian

6. The Castellan Revolution and the Peace of God in Aquitaine / Debord, Andre

7. The Peace of God and the Cult of the Saints in Aquitaine in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries / Callahan, Daniel F.

8. Between Aristocracy and Heresy: Popular Participation in the Limousin Peace of God, 994-1033 / Landes, Richard

9. The Judgment of God: Andrew of Fleury's Account of the Peace League of Bourges / Head, Thomas

10. Monks, Feuds, and the Making of Peace in Eleventh- Century Flanders / Koziol, Geoffrey

11. Protection of the Church, Defense of the Law, and Reform: On the Purposes and Character of the Peace of God, 989-1038 / Goetz, Hans-Werner

12. Pollution, Purity, and Peace: An Aspect of Social Reform between the Late Tenth Century and 1076 / Remensnyder, Amy G.

Postscript: The Peace of God and the Social Revolution / Moore, R.I.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501725562

1501725564

OCLC:

1080549583