Daniel Gerrard

The Church at War: The Military Activities of Bishops, Abbots and Other Clergy in England, c. 900-1200 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This study addresses three main areas: which clergy engaged in military activity in England, why and when? By what means did they do so? And how did others react to these activities? The book shows that, however vivid such characters as Odo of Bayeux might be in the historical imagination, there was no archetypal militant prelate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317038320
• Artikelnr.: 46757955

Autorenporträt

Daniel M. G. Gerrard is Director of Greene's Institute in Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1: Occasions and Participants
Chapter 1: Fighting Clergy in Battle and on Campaign
Part 2: Military Power and Practice
Chapter 2: Prelates and their Warriors
Chapter 3: Prelates and their Fortresses
Chapter 4: Spiritual Weapons in Secular Warfare
Chapter 5: Delegated Powers and Marcher Lords
Part 3: Responses
Chapter 6: Canonical Responses
Chapter 7: Political and Judicial Responses
Chapter 8: Narrative Responses
Conclusions