Crusading Peace: Christendom, the Muslim World, and Western Political Order
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Book Description
Tomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages. Mastnak traces the ways that eleventh-century peace movements, seeking to end violence among Christians, shaped not only power structures within Christendom but also the relationship of the Western Christian world to the world outside. The unification of Christian society under the banner of "holy peace" precipitated a fundamental division between the Christian and non-Christian worlds, and the postulated peace among Christians led to holy war against non-Christians.
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"An outstanding work that successfully engages a historical phenomenon of major influence on our lives today and also looks into one of the more treacherous aspects of human thought and behavior... Mastnak shows, in a robust and convincing fashion, that the crusades and the peace movement were two faces of the same coin and analyzes in compelling detail how this dynamic played itself out from the eleventh through the fourteenth centuries."--Michael A. Sells, author of The Bridge Betrayed
"An enormously important contribution to understanding how Western Europe defined itself as Christendom and then acted on that understanding to shape new and hostile relations with other parts of the world."--Gabrielle M. Spiegel, author of The Past as Text
Crusading Peace: Christendom, the Muslim World, and Western Political Order
Crusading Peace: Christendom, the Muslim World, and Western Political Order,Tomaz Mastnak,University of California Press,0520226356,Christianity,Crusades,Doctrine,History,History - General History,History of doctrines,Just war,Medieval,Middle Ages, 600-1500,Peace,Religion,Religious aspects,To 1500,History / General,History of religion,Industrialized / developed countries,Religious conflict,World history: c 500 to C 1500
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