Research Catalog

Title

Miracles, political authority, and violence in medieval and early modern history / edited by Matthew Rowley and Natasha Hodgson.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rowley, Matthew, Dr.
• Hodgson, Natasha R.

Description

ix, 260 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Themes in Medieval and early modern history

Uniform Title

Themes in medieval and early modern history.

Subject

• Violence > Religious aspects > History
• Religion and politics > History
• Supernatural > History
• Religious tolerance > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Divine violence : from the ancient Near East to the assault on the United States Capitol / Matthew Rowley -- 'Words that Supply Valour' : God, warfare, and the rhetoric of persuasion in Carolingian history writing / Robert Evans -- Bearded ghosts and holy visions : miracles, manliness and clerical authority on the First Crusade / Natasha Hodgson -- Narrating 'new wonders' : divine agency, crusade and Afonso I of Portugal's 1147 conquest of Santarém / Beth C. Spacey -- Miracles, divine agency, and Christian-Muslim diplomacy during the Crusades / Scott Moynihan -- Divining God's favour and diverting his wrath : supernatural intervention in the Hussite Wars under Jan Žižka, 1419-1424 / Andrew K. Deaton -- The sword of God : tyrannicide as a providential and miraculous event from medieval debates to early modern religious conflicts / Julien Le Mauff -- The place of miraculous images/icons in the confrontation between Christian confessions in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century / Volha Barysenka -- Providence and conscience during the Cromwellian Conquest of Scotland, 1650-53 / Calum S. Wright -- 'Universal Martyrdom' : resistance and religion in 1650s Ireland / Joan Redmond -- Authority, toleration and miracles in the writings of Roger Williams, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke / Matthew Rowley -- 'Our Almighty God is the Over-Ruling Generalissimo' : teaching and experiencing providence in the British Army, 1688-1714 / Ping Liao -- Immanent power and the conversion of kings / Alan Strathern -- Pointillist proofs of divine agency in war / Matthew Rowley.

Call Number

JFE 22-1104

ISBN

• 9780367767266
• 0367767260
• 9780367767280
• 0367767287

OCLC

1272890300

Title

Miracles, political authority, and violence in medieval and early modern history / edited by Matthew Rowley and Natasha Hodgson.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Themes in Medieval and early modern history

Themes in medieval and early modern history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Rowley, Matthew, Dr., editor, author.

Hodgson, Natasha R., editor, author.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-1104