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Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Perspectives from Europe and Japan
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Edited by:
Fernanda Alfieri
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
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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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - I. Seminal Ideas
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From Divine Violence to Religious Violence
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Holy Scripture, Theology, and Violence
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“Nothing violent can last”: Nature, Violence, and Political Legitimacy in a Scholastic Formula
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Tyrannicide as an Act of Divine Justice
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“Violentia” and the Devil
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Violence and Covenant in Machiavelli’s Thinking
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Peace According to the Political Theologians of the Holy Roman Empire at the End of the Thirty Years’ War
107 - III. Theories and Practices
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Reconquista and Muslim Vassals
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The Global Expansion of Christian Violence in the Old and the New World
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Religion and Violence in the Christian Mission in Early Modern Japan
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The Privateering by the Knights of Saint Stephen against Turks and Barbary Pirates
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Contributors
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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
Audience(s) for this book
Cultural History, economic history
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