The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Response in France around the Year 1000 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080142741X ISBN 13: 9780801427411

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Head is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orleans. Richard Landes is Assistant Professor of History at Boston University.

From the Back Cover:

This book deepens our understanding of the processes of social and religious change that revitalized Europe at the dawn of our millenium.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 080142741X
• ISBN 13: 9780801427411
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Head Thomas, Landes Richard