Religion and Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds: Identities, Communities and Authorities - Paperback

by Natasha Hodgson (Editor), Amy Fuller (Editor), John McCallum (Editor)

This volume seeks to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact, and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods.

The chapters examine ideas about religion and conflict in the context of text and identity, church and state, civic environments, marriage, the parish, heresy, gender, dialogues, war and finance, and Holy War. The volume covers a wide chronological period, and the contributors investigate relationships between religion and conflict from the seventh to eighteenth centuries ranging from Byzantium to post-conquest Mexico. Religious expressions of conflict at a localised level are explored, including the use of language in legal and clerical contexts to influence social behaviours and the use of religion to legitimise the spiritual value of violence, rationalising the enforcement of social rules. The collection also examines spatial expressions of religious conflict both within urban environments and through travel and pilgrimage.

With both written and visual sources being explored, this volume is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers of religion and military, political, social, legal, cultural, or intellectual conflict in medieval and early modern worlds.

Author Biography

Natasha Hodgson is Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Nottingham Trent University. She wrote Women, Crusading and the Holy Land and co-edited Crusading and Masculinities. She is series editor for Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History and Advances in Crusader Studies and co-edits Nottingham Medieval Studies.

Amy Fuller is Lecturer in the History of the Americas, 1400-1700 at Nottingham Trent University, specialising in Early Modern Spain and Mexico. She is the author of Between Two Worlds: The autos sacramentales of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

John McCallum is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Nottingham Trent University He is the author of Poor Relief and the Church in Scotland, 1560-1650 and Reforming the Scottish Parish (2010) and edited the volume Scotland's Long Reformation (2016).

Nicholas Morton is Senior Lecturer in History at Nottingham Trent University. His most recent publications include: The Field of Blood and Encountering Islam on the First Crusade. He is series editor for Rulers of the Latin East, The Military Religious Orders, and Global Histories before Globalisation.