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Christianity has had a problematic relationship with warfare throughout its history, with the middle ages being no exception. While warfare came to be accepted as a necessary activity for laymen, clerics were largely excluded from military activity. Those who participated in war risked falling foul of a number of accepted canons of the church as well as the opinions of their peers. However, many continued to involve themselves in war - including active participation on battlefields. This book, focusing on a number of individual English clerics between 1000 and 1250, seeks to untangle the cultural debate surrounding this military behaviour. It sets its examination into a broader context, including the clerical reform movement of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the development of a more comprehensive canon law, and the popularization of chivalric ideology. Rather than portraying these clerics as anachronistic outliers or mere criminals, this study looks at how contemporaries understood their behaviour, arguing that there was a wide range of views - which often included praise for clerics who fought in licit causes. The picture which emerges is that clerical violence, despite its prescriptive condemnation, was often judged by how much it advanced the interests of the observer.

Great Britain --- Church history --- History, Military --- Great Britain - Church history - 1066-1485.

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Great Britain --- Italy --- Grande-Bretagne --- Italie --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse --- Great Britain - Church history - 1066-1485 --- Italy - Church history - 476-1400

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The lengthy period of the Avignon papacy in the fourteenth century created circumstances in which the burgeoning bureaucracy of the papal curia could flourish. Papal involvement in the everyday business of the church at local level reached its fullest extent in the years before the Great Schism. This book examines the impact of that involvement in Scotland and northern England, and analyses the practical effect of theories of papal sovereignty at a time when there was still widespread acceptance of the role of the Holy See. The nature and importance of political opposition, from both crown and parliament, is investigated from the standpoint of the validity of the complaints as indicated by local evidence, and a new interpretation is offered of the various statutory measures taken in England in Edward III's reign to control alleged abuses of papal power. Points of similarity and difference between Scotland and England are also given due emphasis. This is the first work to attempt to analyse the full breadth of papal involvement in late medieval Britain by utilising the rich local sources in association with material from the Vatican archives.

Papacy --- History --- -Holy See --- See, Holy --- Popes --- -Great Britain --- England, Northern --- -Scotland --- North England --- Northern England --- Church history --- -Church history --- Church history. --- -History --- Avignon, Popes at --- Babylonian captivity, Papal --- Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417 --- Great Britain --- Scotland --- 1309-1378 --- Medieval period, 1066-1485 --- Great Britain - Church history - 1066-1485. --- Arts and Humanities --- Papacy - History - 1309-1378.

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A collection of letters portraying the life and times of this great medieval scholar, the devoted secretary of Archbishop Theobald, and the faithful friend and counsellor of Becket.

--1153-1180 --- --publication de sources --- --John, --- John of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres --- Latin letters, Medieval and modern --- -Philosophers --- -Scholars --- Translations into English --- Correspondence --- -Correspondence --- Philosophers --- Histoire de l'Église --- --Grande-Bretagne --- Great Britain --- Church history --- -Translations into English --- Philosophers - England - Correspondence --- John, - of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, - -1180 - Correspondence --- Grande-Bretagne --- Great Britain - Church history - 1066-1485 - Sources --- ANGLETERRE --- HISTOIRE RELIGIEUSE --- CORRESPONDANCE --- HISTOIRE --- 10E-13E SIECLES --- SOURCES --- 12E SIECLE --- MOYEN AGE --- EDITION --- John, - of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, - -1180 --- Histoire religieuse --- Latin letters, Medieval and modern. --- Lettres latines médiévales et modernes (Genre littéraire) --- Philosophers. --- Philosophes --- Correspondance --- Jean de Salisbury, --- Jean, --- John, --- England.