Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200
by
Jehangir Malegam
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Sleep of Behemoth, Jehangir Yezdi Malegam explores the emergence of conflicting concepts of peace in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Ever since the early Church, Christian thinkers had conceived of their peace separate from the peace of the world, guarded by the sacraments and shared...