The Peace of God
Social Violence and Religious Response in France Around the Year 1000

Thomas Head (Edited by), Richard Landes (Edited by)

9780801480218

Paperback / softback, published 24 December 1992

384 pages
23.5 x 15.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 kg

During the dissolution of the former Carolingian Empire, warfare and plunder went unchecked. An innovative response to this violence was the Church-led initiative known as the Peace of God, perhaps history's earliest mass peace movement. In the thirteen essays collected here, leading scholars consider key aspects of the movement and episodes in its history.