The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Response in France around the Year 1000
Thomas F. X. Noble|Thomas Head|Richard Landes
During the dissolution of former Carolingian Empire, warfare and plunder went unchecked. An innovative response to this violence was Church-led initiative known as Peace God, perhaps history's earliest mass peace movement. In thirteen essays collected here, leading scholars consider key aspects movement episodes in its history.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History