Armsbearing and the clergy in the history and canon law of Western Christianity / Lawrence G Duggan.
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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Table of Contents:
- Preface and acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. Julius Exclusus?
- Quot homines, tot sententiae
- The canon law of the Roman Catholic Church on clerical armsbearing (I) : to the twelfth century
- The canon law of the Roman Catholic Church (II) : 'revolution in law', ca. 1120-1317
- The canon law of the Roman Catholic Church (III) : since 1317
- Armsbearing in the English legal tradition
- Conclusion
- Bibliography. Index.