'Ecclesia et Violentia' is an interdisciplinary anthology that explores the phenomenon of violence in relation to the medieval Church, as well as within the structures of that institution. The volume provides a clearer understanding of hostile and violent acts against both religious institutions and clergy, and explores the interpersonal aggression between clergymen or forms of violent behaviour of medieval clerics. It investigates, furthermore, the role of violence in maintaining discipline within religious communities, as well as religious, legal and cultural interpretations of the aforementioned issues. However, despite the many points of view expressed here, the central question the authors reconcile is how the phenomenon of violence interacted with the most important medieval institution, and official Church thinking regarding concepts such as power, rank, feudal loyalty and protection and ownership. Through the geographical diversity of the contributions and the variety of disciplinary perspectives, this book highlights how important violence was in the life of the clergy and how it formed an integral part of the legal culture and social bonds in many regions of medieval Europe.
Author(s): Radosław Kotecki, Jacek Maciejewski
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 375
City: Newcastle upon Tyne
List of Abbreviations viii
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
Part I: Violence against the Church
Chapter One. Arsonists, Thieves and Clerics: Attacks against the Church within the Dioceses of Salamanca and Zamora during the 12th and 13th Centuries / Esperanza de los Reyes Aguilar 8
Chapter Two. Pierre’s Crossing: Violence and Assassination in the South of France at the Turn of the 13th Century / Walker Reid Cosgrove 26
Chapter Three. Violence against the Paulines in Late Medieval Slavonia / Silvija Pisk 41
Chapter Four. Episcopal and Papal Vacancies: A Long History of Violence / Joëlle Rollo-Koster 54
Part II: Violence within the Church
Chapter Five. 'Serente diabulo': The Revolts of the Nuns at Poitiers and Tours in the Late 6th Century / Natalia Bikeeva 72
Chapter Six. Violence in the Monastery: The Lynching that Could Have Happened - Based on a Story Recorded by Ekkehard IV of St. Gall / Michał Tomaszek 91
Chapter Seven. Chivalry, War and Clerical Identity: England and Normandy c. 1056-1226 / Daniel Gerrard 102
Chapter Eight. 'All my Sons are Bastards': Geoffrey Plantagenet’s Military Service to Henry II / Craig M. Nakashian 122
Chapter Nine. Making War and Enormities: Violence within the Church in the Diocese of Cracow at the Beginning of the 14th Century / Jacek Maciejewski 141
Chapter Ten. Violence and Apostasy: Conflict as Cause or Side Effect? / Milena Svec Goetschi 166
Part III: The Church in a Violent World
Chapter Eleven. The Attack on Pope Formosus: Papal History in an Age of Resentment (875-897) / Michael Edward Moore 184
Chapter Twelve. The Archdiocese of Nidaros and Its Political Encounters in Late 12th and Early 13th Century Norway / Jakub Morawiec 209
Chapter Thirteen. Once upon a Time in Faversham / Anna Anisimova 220
Chapter Fourteen. 'Vis et metus', or How the Monastic Chronicler Ludolf of Sagan Presented the Relationships of Canons Regular with Local Dukes (14th Century) / Aleksandra Filipek 236
Part IV: Cultural Perceptions of Violence
Chapter Fifteen. 'A beato Maximino se letaliter ictum eiulando indicavit': Visions of Saints Personally Executing Physical Punishments in 10th- and 11th-century French Hagiography / Szymon Wieczorek 254
Chapter Sixteen. The Clergy’s Complaints and Pleas to Rulers for Protection from Violence in France and the Empire (10th–12th Centuries) / Radosław Kotecki 280
Chapter Seventeen. The Protection of the Church by Hungarian Royal Decrees and Synodal Statutes in the 11th to early 14th centuries / Gergely Kiss 313
Chapter Eighteen. Rough Sex and Rape in 'Carmina Burana' / David A. Traill 333
Chapter Nineteen. The Use of Power and Violence as Methods of Conducting a Religious Dispute: The Case of the Hussite Polemics / Paweł F. Nowakowski 344
Contributors 356
