Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-530) and index.
Contents:
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 Leon and reconquest in the times of Alfonso VII of Castile and Leon / 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.
Series:
Explorations in medieval culture, 2352-0299 ; volume 3
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