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Religion and the Conduct of War c.300-c.1215 (Hardcover, Uitgawe ed.)
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Religion and the Conduct of War c.300-c.1215 (Hardcover, Uitgawe ed.)
Series: Warfare in History
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The first comprehensive analysis of the dynamic interpenetration of
religion and war in the West from C4 to early C13. Warfare in all
histories and cultures shows evidence of the driving need to
sanctify the cause, from the personal devotions of individuals to
the grand designs of the architects of battle. In his important
study David Bachrach takes a first thorough look at warfare in
western Europe and its interaction with Christianity, from the
initial appearance of the pacifist sect to the medieval popes'
certainty of the crusades as "holy war". Religion played a
necessary and crucial role in the conduct of war during late
Antiquity and the middle ages. Military discipline and morale
depended in significant part on religious rites carried out by
priests and soldiers in the field and by their supporters on the
home front. Just as importantly, warfare in the late Roman empire
and its western successor states had a profound impact on Christian
religious practice and doctrine: liturgical developments - in
prayer, communion, confession, penance - can be linked to the
military needs of the Christian Roman world and the Christian
states of medieval Europe. Even more profound was the
transformation of Christianity itself from pacifism to a faith
which justified and eventually glorified killing on behalf of the
Church. This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of
the dynamic interpenetration of religion and war in the West during
almost a thousand years, fromthe accession of Constantine the Great
in the early fourth century until the eve of the Fourth Lateran
Council in the early thirteenth. With its often new interpretations
of a vast array of sources, Religion and the Conduct ofWar has much
to say to historians and others on the nature of war and its
relationship with faith. DAVID S. BACHRACH is Associate Professor
of History, University of New Hampshire.
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