The church and war : papers read at the Twenty-first Summer Meeting and the Twenty-second Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society / edited by W.J. Sheils Hardcover - 1983

Oxford: Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by B. Blackwell, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xix, 472 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. English. Contents: Saint Augustine's views on the 'just war' / R.A. Markus -- Church's military service in the ninth century: a contemporary comparative view? / Janet L. Nelson -- Church, warfare and military obligation in Norman Italy / G.A. Loud -- Monasteries as war memorials: Battle Abbey and La Victoire / Elizabeth M. Hallam -- Ideas and reality: some attempts to control and defuse war in the twelfth century / Christopher J. Holdsworth -- Propaganda for war: the dissemination of the crusading ideal in the twelfth century / Colin Morris -- Missionaries and crusaders, 1095-1274; opponents or allies? / Elizabeth Siberry -- Cities of God: the Italian communes at war / Diana M. Webb -- Medieval Waldensian abhorrence of killing pre-c.1400 / Peter Biller -- Undesirable aliens in the diocese of York / Rosalind M.T. Hill -- English archbishop and the Cerberus of war / Roy M. Haines -- English clergy and the Hundred Years War / A.K. McHardy -- Omnino partialitate cessante: Clement VI and the Hundred Years War / Diana Wood -- Way of action: Pierre d'Ailly and the military solution to the great schism / R.N. Swanson -- Clerical violence in a Catholic society: the Hispanic world 1450-1720 / Henry Kamen -- 'Weakness of conscience' in the Reformed movement in the Netherlands: the attitude of the Dutch reformation to the use of violence between 1562 and 1574 / Auke Jelsma -- Clergymen and conflict 1660-1763 / D. Napthine and W.A. Speck -- Churches and the '45 / Francoise DeConinck-Brossard -- English evangelical dissent and the European conflict 1780-1815 / Deryck Lovegrove -- Christian responses to the Indian mutiny of 1857 / Brian Stanley -- Instruments of providence: slavery, civil war and the American churches / Peter J. Parish -- 'Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right': the protestant churches and Ulster's resistance to home rule, 1912-14 / R.F.G. Holmes -- War, the nation and the kingdom of God: the origins of the National Mission of Repentance and Hope, 1915-16 / David M. Thompson -- Et virtutem et musas: Mill Hill School and the Great War / Clyde Binfield -- Cowley fathers and the First World War / Brian Taylor -- Christian pacifism in the era of two world wars / Martin Ceadel -- Sword of the Spirit: a Catholic cultural crusade of 1940 / Stuart Mews -- Fall of France / Gavin White -- Holy men and rural communities in Zimbabwe, 1970-1980 / Terence Ranger. Subjects: Conference. Church and war (1982 : University of Reading). Conference. Church and war (1982 : King's College, London). War Religious aspects Christianity ; Congresses. Guerre Aspect religieux Christianisme ; Congrès. War Religious aspects Christianity. Kirche KriegKerkgeschiedenis (wetenschap). Oorlog. War Religious aspects Christianity ; Congresses. Church and the world History ; Congresses.War Religious aspects Congresses.