When French knights prepared for a second expedition to Spain in 1073, Pope Gregory VII addressed a letter to the French barons in which, in his usual fashion, he made explicit the papacy's claim to sovereignty over the churches in ...
The book includes an 8-page color insert of illustrations, 12 maps, over 25 black-and-white illustrations, a chronology of the crusades, and a list of rulers.
In the eastern side of the island around Mago, where the Jews lived, on the other hand, the place was crawling with poisonous snakes and scorpions, as befitted the “generation of vipers” that they were. That his own western parts ...
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In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling argument, he contends...
In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states.
Sacred Violence: Paul's Hermeneutic of the Cross
In particular, the book examines Islamism and the western secular, liberal democratic responses to it.
Jill Claster's Sacred Violence offers the reader a cogent narrative history of the crusades based on the latest research. In her recounting of events from the perspective of the Latin West, the Muslim East, the Christian East as well as ...
In particular, the book examines Islamism and the western secular, liberal democratic responses to it.
Sacred Violence: Cormac McCarthy's western novels