The Interdict in the Thirteenth Century
Subtitle: A Question of Collective Guilt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: October 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780199208609
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of religion; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Christian Church - Canon & Ecclesiastical Law; Europe - General; Medieval; History / Europe / General; Excommunication (Canon law); Guilt (Canon law); Interdict (Canon law)
Description: The Catholic Church extended its authority over many areas of life in the Later Middle Ages, and this increasingly led it into political conflicts with kings and other rulers. In this book Peter Clarke focuses on one of the Church's chief weapons in these struggles - the interdict.