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Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Perspectives from Europe and Japan
  • Edited by: Fernanda Alfieri and Takashi Jinno
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2021

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The volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early modern period, involving European and Japanese scholars. It investigates the ideological foundations of the relationship between violence and religion and their development in a varied corpus of sources (political and theological treatises, correspondence of missionaries, pamphlets, and images).

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Fernanda Alfieri, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, and University of Bologna, Italia; Jinno Takashi, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.


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Fernanda Alfieri and Takashi Jinno
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I. Seminal Ideas

A Socio-Political Interpretation of Exodus 15
Debora Tonelli
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Terror and Samson in the Early Modern Era
Vincenzo Lavenia
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Serena Ferente
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The Doctrines of Tyrannicide of John of Salisbury and Juan de Mariana
Takashi Jinno
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II. Changing Meanings

Early Modern Narratives of Demonic Possession and Catholic Anthropology
Fernanda Alfieri
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Morihisa Ishiguro
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Taku Minagawa
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III. Theories and Practices

Religion, Politics, and Violence on the Medieval Iberian Peninsula
Yuga Kuroda
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From Early Church Fathers to the Jesuits
Kazuhisa Takeda
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Atsuko Hirayama
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Violence and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Printed News Narratives
Giovanni Ciappelli
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eBook published on:
March 8, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110643978
Hardcover published on:
March 8, 2021
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110639988
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
6
Main content:
197
Illustrations:
14
Coloured Illustrations:
6
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