Armsbearing and the clergy in the history and canon law of western christianity /
In the first millennium the Christian Church forbade its clergy from bearing arms. In the mid-eleventh century the ban was reiterated many times at the highest levels: all participants in the battle of Hastings, for example, who had drawn blood were required to do public penance. Yet over the next t...
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Duggan, Lawrence G., 1944-
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Boydell Press,
2013.
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