Miracles, Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern History

This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the medieval and early modern periods.

Autorentext

Matthew Rowley is Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester and a historian of early modern religion and violence. Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again (2021) examined how Americans interact with historical racism, sexism and exploitation. He is editing a two-volume Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought, 15171914.

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 (2017) and co-edited Crusading and Masculinities (2019). She is series editor for Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History and Advances in Crusader Studies and co-edits Nottingham Medieval Studies.

Inhalt

1. "Words that supply Valour": God, Warfare, and the Rhetoric of Persuasion in Carolingian History Writing 2. Bearded Ghosts and Holy Visions: Miracles, Manliness and Clerical Authority on the First Crusade 3. Narrating 'New Wonders': Divine Agency, Crusade, and Afonso I of Portugal's 1147 Conquest of Santarém 4. Miracles, Divine Agency, and Christian-Muslim Diplomacy During the Crusades 5. Divining God's Favour and Diverting His Wrath: Supernatural Intervention in the Hussite Wars under Jan ika, 14191424 6. The Sword of God: Tyrannicide as a Providential and Miraculous Event from Medieval Debates to Early Modern Religious Conflicts 7. 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 Centuries 8. Providence and Conscience During the Cromwellian Conquest of Scotland, 165053 9. 'Universal martyrdom': Resistance and Religion in 1650s Ireland 10. Authority, Toleration and Miracles in the Writings of Roger Williams, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke 11. 'Our Almighty God is the Over-ruling Generalissimo': Teaching and Experiencing God in the British Army, 16881714 12. Immanent Power and the Conversion of Kings 13. Pointillist Proofs of Divine Agency in War