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Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia

by Gillis

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Trivent Publishing
  • 14.8 x 21 x 1.5 cm

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Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia explores how authorities in western Francia used horror rhetoric to cast Christian soldiers, who robbed the poor and the church, as monsters that devoured human flesh and drank human blood. Adapting modern literary horror approaches to medieval sources, this study reveals how such rhetoric served as a form of spiritual weaponry in the clergy's attempts to correct and condemn wayward military men. This investigation, therefore, unearths long-forgotten Carolingian thought about the dreadful spiritual reality of internal enemies during a time of political division and the Northmens depredations. Yet such horror also informed a new understanding of Christian heroism that developed in relation to the wars fought against the invaders. This vision of heroic soldiers, which included military martyrs, culminated in ideas about holy war against the pagans. Thus Carolingian religious horror and holy war together belonged to a body of ideas about the spiritual, unseen side of the church's cosmic conflict against evil that foreshadowed later medieval Crusading thought.

  • Author

    Gillis

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Trivent Publishing

  • Published

    December 2021

  • Weight

    666g

  • Dimensions

    14.8 x 21 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9786156405203

  • ISBN-10

    6156405208

  • Eden Code

    5676611

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