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

by Thomas Head (Editor), Richard Landes (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801427411
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	12/24/1992
Series:	1/31/2000
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.12(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.