Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2018
Abstract
Was there such a thing as “crusading violence”? Traditionally the crusading movement has been sharply distinguished from other forms of Christian violence motivated, or at least justified, by religion. However, we have increasingly come to recognize the difficulties of drawing clear-cut boundaries between crusading and other aspects of western European culture in the Middle Ages. This chapter assesses the ways in which crusader violence was like and unlike other forms of medieval Christian violence.
Recommended Citation
Throop, Susanna A., "'Not Cruelty But Piety': Circumscribing European Crusading Violence" (2018). History Faculty Publications. 8.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/history_fac/8
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Comments
This is the accepted manuscript version of a chapter to be published in volume 2 of The Cambridge World History of Violence, edited by Richard W. Kaeuper, Deborah Tor and Harriet Zurndorfer.
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