Daniel Gerrard: The Church at War

Cover: 9780367879358 | The Church at War | Daniel Gerrard | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2019

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Beschreibung

The fighting bishop or abbot is a familiar figure to medievalists and much of what is known of the military organization of England in this period is based on ecclesiastical evidence. Unfortunately the fighting cleric has generally been regarded as merely a baron in clerical dress and has consequently fallen into the gap between military and ecclesiastical history. 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 understand and 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. There was enormous variation in the character of the clergy that became involved in warfare, their circumstances, the means by which they pursued their military objectives and the way in which they were treated by contemporaries and described by chroniclers. An appreciation of the individual fighting cleric must be both thematically broad and keenly aware of his context. Such individuals cannot therefore be simply slotted into easy categories, even (or perhaps especially) when those categories are informed by contemporary polemic.

The implications of this study for our understanding of clerical identity are considerable, as the easy distinction between clerics acting in a secular or ecclesiastical capacity almost entirely breaks down and the legal structures of the period are shown to be almost as equivocal and idiosyncratic as the literary depictions. The implications for military history are equally striking as organisational structures are shown to be more temporary, fluid and 'political' than had previously been understood.

Über den Autor

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780367879358
ISBN-10:	0367879352
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Gerrard, Daniel
Hersteller:	Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Daniel Gerrard
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.12.2019
Gewicht:	0,512 kg

Artikel-ID: 128396891