Essays on the Peace of God : the church and the people in eleventh-century France

During the dissolution of the former Carolingian Empire, warfare and plunder seemed to contemporaries to go 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.

Contributors:

Thomas Head

Richard Landes

Frederick Paxton

Bernhard Töpfer

Elisabeth Magnou Nortier

Guy Lobrichon

Christian Lauranson Rosaz

André Debord

Daniel Callahan

Hans-Werner Goetz

Amy Remensnyder