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Armsbearing and the Clergy in the History and Canon Law of Western Christianity (Paperback)
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Armsbearing and the Clergy in the History and Canon Law of Western Christianity (Paperback)
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The history of the vexed relationship between clergy and warfare is
traced through a careful examination of canon law. In the first
millennium the Christian Church forbade its clergy from bearing
arms. In the mid-eleventh century the ban was reiterated many times
at the highest levels: all participants in the battle of Hastings,
for example, who had drawn blood were required to do public
penance. Yet over the next two hundred years the canon law of the
Latin Church changed significantly: the pope and bishops came to
authorize and direct wars; military-religious orders, beginning
with the Templars, emerged to defend the faithful and the Faith;
and individual clerics were allowed to bear arms for defensive
purposes. This study examines how these changes developed, ranging
widely across Europe and taking the story right up to the present
day; it also considers the reasons why the original prohibition has
never been restored. LAWRENCE G. DUGGAN is Professor of History at
the University of Delaware and research fellow of the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation.
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