Ecclesia et violentia : violence against the Church and violence within the church in the middle ages / edited by Radosław Kotecki and Jacek Maciejewski.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Arsonists, Thieves and Clerics: Attacks against the Church within the Dioceses of Salamanca and Zamora during the 12th and 13th Centuries -- Pierre's Crossing: Violence and Assassination in the South of France at the Turn of the 13th Century -- Violence against the Paulines in Late Medieval Slavonia -- Episcopal and Papal Vacancies: A Long History of Violence -- Serente diabulo: The Revolts of the Nuns at Poitiers and Tours in the Late 6th Century -- Violence in the Monastery: The Lynching that Could Have Happened, Based on a Story Recorded by Ekkehard IV of St Gall -- Chivalry, War and Clerical Identity: England and Normandy c. 1056-1226 -- All my Sons are Bastards: Geoffrey Plantagenet's Military Service to Henry II -- Making War and Enormities: Violence within the Church in the Diocese of Cracow at the Beginning of the 14th Century -- Violence and Apostasy: Conflict as Cause or Side Effect? -- The Attack on Pope Formosus: Papal History in an Age of Resentment (875-897) -- The Archdiocese of Nidaros and Its Political Encounters in Late 12th and Early 13th Century Norway -- Once upon a Time in Faversham -- Vis et metus, or How the Monastic Chronicler Ludolf of Sagan Presented the Relationships of Canons Regular with Local Dukes (14th Century) -- A beato Maximino se letaliter ictum eiulando indicavit: Visions of Saints Personally Executing Physical Punishments in 10th- and 11th-century French Hagiography -- The Clergy's Complaints and Pleas to Rulers for Protection from Violence in France and the Empire (10th-12th Centuries) -- The Protection of the Church by Hungarian Royal Decrees and Synodal Statutes in the 11th to early 14th centuries -- Rough Sex and Rape in Carmina Burana -- The Use of Power and Violence as Methods of Conducting a Religious Dispute: The Case of the Hussite Polemics.

Ecclesia et Violentia is an interdisciplinary anthology that explores the phenomenon of violence in relation to the medieval Church, as well as within the structures of that institution. The volume provides a clearer understanding of hostile and violent acts against both religious institutions and clergy, and explores the interpersonal aggression between clergymen or forms of violent behaviour of medieval clerics. It investigates, furthermore, the role of violence in maintaining discipline within religious communities, as well as religious, legal and cultural interpretations of the aforementioned issues. However, despite the many points of view expressed here, the central question the authors reconcile is how the phenomenon of violence interacted with the most important medieval institution, and official Church thinking regarding concepts such as power, rank, feudal loyalty and protection and ownership. Through the geographical diversity of the contributions and the variety of disciplinary perspectives, this book highlights how important violence was in the life of the clergy and how it formed an integral part of the legal culture and social bonds in many regions of medieval Europe.

English.

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