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• catalog abstract ""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, from the 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 of War has much to say to historians and others on the nature of war and its relationship with faith."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog contributor b12908503.
• catalog created "2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
• catalog description ""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, from the 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 of War has much to say to historians and others on the nature of war and its relationship with faith."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-211) and index.".
• catalog extent "216 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0851159443".
• catalog isPartOf "Warfare in history".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press,".
• catalog subject "261.8/73/09 21".
• catalog subject "BT736.2 .B25 2003".
• catalog subject "War Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, approximately 30-600.".
• catalog subject "War Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600.".
• catalog subject "War Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500.".
• catalog title "Religion and the conduct of war, c. 300-1215 / David S. Bachrach.".
• catalog type "text".