 | The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Response in France around the Year 1000 Subjects: Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages 600–1500; Peace movements -- France -- History; France -- Social conditions -- 987–1515; France -- Religious life and customs; During the dissolution of the former Carolingian Empire, warfare and plunder went unchecked. An innovative response to this violence was the Church-led initiative known as the Peace of God, perhaps history's earliest mass peace movement. In the... Thomas Head is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orleans . Richard Landes is Assistant Professor of History at Boston University. |
