Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia (Hardcover)

Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia explores how authorities in western Francia used horror rhetoric to cast Christian soldiers, who robbed the poor and the church, as monsters that devoured human flesh and drank human blood. Adapting modern literary horror approaches to medieval sources, this study reveals how such rhetoric served as a form of spiritual weaponry in the clergy's attempts to correct and condemn wayward military men. This investigation, therefore, unearths long-forgotten Carolingian thought about the dreadful spiritual reality of internal enemies during a time of political division and the Northmen's depredations. Yet such horror also informed a new understanding of Christian heroism that developed in relation to the wars fought against the invaders. This vision of heroic soldiers, which included military martyrs, culminated in ideas about holy war against the pagans. Thus Carolingian religious horror and holy war together belonged to a body of ideas about the spiritual, unseen side of the church's cosmic conflict against evil that foreshadowed later medieval Crusading thought.

General

Imprint:	Trivent Publishing
Country of origin:	Hungary
Series:	Renovatio - Studies in the Carolingian World
Release date:	November 2021
Authors:	Matthew Bryan Gillis
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	158
ISBN-13:	978-6156405203
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion Books > History > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion Promotions
LSN:	6156405208
Barcode:	9786156405203

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