Between sword and prayer : warfare and medieval clergy in cultural perspective / edited by Radosław Kotecki, Jacek Maciejewski, John S. Ott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bishops as city defenders in early medieval Gaul and Germany / Genevieve Buhrer-Thierry -- The Frankish Church and missionary war in Central Europe / Michael Edward Moore -- "De clericis qui pugnaverunt, aut pugnandi gratia armati fuerunt": Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances (1048-1093) and clerical participation in the Battle of Hastings / Chris Dennis -- Why study fighting clergy? Knight service, integrated war, and the bounds of English military history, c. 1000-1200 / Daniel Gerrard -- Orderic vitalis and Henry of Huntingdon: views of clerical warfare from inside and outside the cloister / Craig M. Nakashian -- Ungirded for battle: knightly conversion to monastic life and the making of weapon-relics in the Central Middle Ages / Katherine Allen Smith -- The Episcopate and Reconquest in the Times of Alfonso VII of Castile and León / Carlos de Ayala Martinez -- The Aragonese Episcopate and the military campaigns of Alfonso I the Battler against Iberian Muslims / Pablo Dorronzoro Ramirez -- Italian bishops and warfare during the investiture contest: the case of Parma / Robert Houghton -- Lions and lambs, wolves and pastors of the flock: portraying military activity of bishops in twelfth-century Poland / Radoslaw Kotecki -- A bishop defends his city, or Master Vincentius's troubles with the military activity of his superior / Jacek Maciejewski -- In the service of Bellona: images of "militant abbots" in late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century historiography of St. Gall (continuationes II and III of Casuum Sancti Galli) / Monika Michalska -- Bishops and abbots at war: some aspects of clerical involvement in warfare in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Livonia and Estonia / Carsten Selch Jensen -- Tending the flock: clergy and a discourse of war in the wider hinterland of the Eastern Adriatic during the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Ivan Majnaric -- "Freedom is the greatest thing": bishops as fighters for freedom in fifteenth-century Sweden / Anna Wasko -- The evolution of Latin canon law on the clergy and armsbearing to the thirteenth century / Lawrence G. Duggan.

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Between Sword and Prayer is a broad-ranging anthology focused on the involvement of medieval clergy in warfare and a variety of related military activities. The essays address, on the one hand, the issue of clerical participation in combat, in organizing military campaigns, and in armed defense, and on the other, questions surrounding the political, ideological, or religious legitimization of clerical military aggression. These perspectives are further enriched by chapters dealing with the problem of the textual representation of clergy who actively participated in military affairs. The essays in this volume span Latin Christendom, encompassing geographically the four corners of medieval Europe: Western, East-Central, Northern Europe, and the Mediterranean. Contributors are Carlos de Ayala Martínez, Geneviève Bührer-Thierry, Chris Dennis, Pablo Dorronzoro Ramírez, Lawrence G. Duggan, Daniel Gerrard, Robert Houghton, Carsten Selch Jensen, Radosław Kotecki, Jacek Maciejewski, Ivan Majnarić, Monika Michalska, Michael Edward Moore, Craig M. Nakashian, John S. Ott, Katherine Allen Smith, and Anna Waśko.

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