UID:
almahu_9949385548602882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 260 pages)
ISBN:
9781003168294
,
1003168299
,
1000473775
,
9781000473827
,
1000473821
,
9781000473773
Series Statement:
Themes in medieval and early modern history
Content:
This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the medieval and early modern periods. Contributors explore miracles, political authority and violence in Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, various Protestant groups, Judaism, Islam and the local religious beliefs of Pacific Islanders who interacted with Christians. Thechapters are geographically expansive, with contributions ranging from confessional conflict in Poland-Lithuania to the conquest of Oceania. They examine various types of conflict such as confessional struggles, conversion attempts, assassination and war, as well as themes including diplomacy, miraculous iconography, toleration, theology and rhetoric. Together, thechapters explore the appropriation of accounts of miraculous violence that are recorded in sacred texts to reveal what partisans claimed God did in conflict, and how they claimed to know. The volume investigates theories of justified warfare, changing beliefs about the supernatural with the advent of modernity and the perceived relationship between human and divine agency. Miracles, Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Historyis of interest to scholars and students in several fields including religion and violence, political and military history, and theology and the reception of sacred texts in the medieval and early modern world.
Note:
Introduction: Divine Violence: From the Ancient Near East to the Assault on the United States CapitolMatthew Rowley"Words that supply Valour": God, Warfare, and the Rhetoric of Persuasion in Carolingian History WritingRobert EvansBearded Ghosts and Holy Visions: Miracles, Manliness and Clerical Authority on the First CrusadeNatasha HodgsonNarrating ⁰́₈New Wonders⁰́₉: Divine Agency, Crusade, and Afonso I of Portugal⁰́₉s 1147 Conquest of Santar©♭mBeth C. SpaceyMiracles, Divine Agency, and Christian-Muslim Diplomacy During the CrusadesScott MoynihanDivining God⁰́₉s Favour and Diverting His Wrath: Supernatural Intervention in the Hussite Wars under Jan ¿ưi¿ℓka, 1419⁰́₃1424Andrew K. DeatonThe Sword of God: Tyrannicide as a Providential and Miraculous Event from Medieval Debates to Early Modern Religious ConflictsJulien Le MauffThe place of miraculous images/icons in the confrontation between Christian confessions in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the Sixteenth to Seventeenth CenturiesVolha BarysenkaProvidence and Conscience During the Cromwellian Conquest of Scotland, 1650⁰́₃53Calum S. Wright⁰́₈Universal martyrdom⁰́₉: Resistance and Religion in 1650s IrelandJoan RedmondAuthority, Toleration and Miracles in the Writings of Roger Williams, Thomas Hobbes and John LockeMatthew Rowley⁰́₈Our Almighty God is the Over-ruling Generalissimo⁰́₉: Teaching and Experiencing God in the British Army, 1688⁰́₃1714Ping LiaoImmanent Power and the Conversion of KingsAlan StrathernPointillist Proofs of Divine Agency in WarMatthew Rowley
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780367767266
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003168294
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003168294
