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Jehangir Malegam - The Sleep of Behemoth: Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200 - 9780801451324 - V9780801451324
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The Sleep of Behemoth: Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200

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Description for The Sleep of Behemoth: Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200 Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 628.

In The Sleep of Behemoth, Jehangir Yezdi Malegam explores the emergence of conflicting concepts of peace in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Ever since the early Church, Christian thinkers had conceived of their peace separate from the peace of the world, guarded by the sacraments and shared only grudgingly with powers and principalities. To kingdoms and communities they had allowed attenuated versions of this peace, modes of accommodation and domination that had tranquility as the goal. After 1000, reformers in the papal curia and monks and canons in the intellectual circles of northern France began to reimagine the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801451324
SKU
V9780801451324
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Jehangir Malegam
Jehangir Yezdi Malegam is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of History at Duke University.

Reviews for The Sleep of Behemoth: Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200
The Peace of Behemoth is a very important book. It leads us into the mental world of church reformers as well as their opponents, and explores ways of understanding peace and violence that are quite different from our own. In the process, it gives us a fresh view of what the ecclesiastical reform movement of the eleventh and twelfth centuries ... Read more

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