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

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 conf lict 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.

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, 14001700, 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 Ins 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, 15601650 and Reforming the Scottish Parish (2010) and edited the volume Scotlands 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.

Series Editor: Natasha Hodgson

Nottingham Trent University

This is a brand new series which straddles both medieval and early modern worlds, encouraging readers to examine historical change over time as well as promoting understanding of the historical continuity between events in the past, and to challenge perceptions of periodisation. It aims to meet the demand for conceptual or thematic topics which cross a relatively wide chronological span (any period between c. 5001750), including a broad geographical scope.

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Edited by Jackson W. Armstrong and Edda Frankot

Religion and Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds

Identities, Communities, and Authorities

Edited by Natasha Hodgson, Amy Fuller, John McCallum, and Nicholas Morton

For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Themes-in-Medieval-and-Early-Modern-History/book-series/TMEMH

Identities, Communities, and Authorities

Edited by Natasha Hodgson, Amy Fuller, John McCallum, and Nicholas Morton

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Names: Hodgson, Natasha R., editor. | Fuller, Amy (Hispanist), editor. |

McCallum, John (Historian), editor. | Morton, Nicholas, 1980 editor.

Title: Religion and conflict in medieval and early modern worlds :

identities, communities, and authorities / edited by Natasha Hodgson,

Amy Fuller, John McCallum, and Nicholas Morton.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021. | Includes

bibliographical references and index. | Contents: Propaganda, polemic

and religious identitiesReligious conflict in local contexts

Religion, gender and authorityReligion and conflict in the city

Legitimising religious warfare.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020031817

Subjects: LCSH: Social conflictReligious apectsHistory.

Classification: LCC BL65.S62 R42 2021 | DDC 200.9dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020031817

ISBN: 978-1-138-32379-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-32380-3 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-45120-1 (ebk)

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Natasha Hodgson and Amy Fuller

PART I
Propaganda, polemic, and religious identities

Elizabeth Tingle

Sara Bradley

Georgia Michael

PART II
Religious conflict in local contexts

Jonathan Healey

Alfred Johnson

Fiona McCall

PART III
Religion, gender, and authority

Kristianna Polder

Martin Roberts

Amy Fuller

PART IV
Religion and conflict in the city

Samuel Lane

Katharine Fellows

Beatrice Saletti

PART V
Legitimising religious warfare

Matthias Ebejer

Ping Liao

Matthew Rowley

Martyn Bennett

Martyn Bennett is Professor in Early Modern History at NTU. He attended state schools in Bishop Auckland and York before reading modern history at Loughborough University. He has written and edited ten books, most of which cover the period of the Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland 16391660 from local, regional, and national perspectives. He has spent recent years working on Oliver Cromwell and is now embarked on a study of the c. 200 people who served in general officer command during the Civil Wars. Professor Bennett is president of the Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society and history editor of the