Malegam, Jehangir Yezdi

The Sleep of Behemoth

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ISBN 13:: 9780801451324
author:: Malegam, Jehangir Yezdi
format:: HardBack
publisher:: Cornell University Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2013
Pages:: 304
Dimensions:: 23.11 x 15.49 x 3.3 centimetres
Genre:: History, Medieval, Religion,
Condition:: New
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The Sleep of Behemoth: A Study of Conflict and Peace in Medieval Europe In the High Middle Ages, Christian thinkers began to redefine their concept of peace. For centuries, they had distinguished between the peace of the world and the peace guarded by the sacraments. However, reformers in the papal curia and northern France's intellectual circles started to reimagine the Church as an engine for true peace, one that would absorb all peoples through revolutionary acts of peacemaking. As this new vision of peace emerged, the clergy competed over its meaning and ownership. They contrasted it with a "sleep of Behemoth," a false peace of lassitude and complacency that produced unsuitable forms of community and friendship. This contest over the meaning of true peace led to the development of theologies that shaped secular political theory in the later Middle Ages. The Sleep of Behemoth explores this pivotal moment in medieval thought, shedding light on how Christian thinkers navigated the complexities of conflict and peace in western Europe during the 11th and 12th centuries.

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