{"product_id":"negotiating-violence-papal-pardons-and-everyday-life-in-east-central-europe-1450-1550-9789004361157","title":"Negotiating Violence: Papal Pardons and Everyday Life in East Central Europe (1450-1550)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNegotiating Violence examines the ways in which ordinary people used a transnational papal court of law for disputing their private local hostilities and for negotiating their social status and identities. Following the career and routine crossovers of runaway friars, the book offers vivid insights into the late medieval culture of violence, honour, emotions, learning and lay-clerical interactions. The story plays itself out in the large composite state of the Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia, which collapses under the Ottomans’ sword in front of the readers’ eyes. The bottom-up approach of the Christian-Muslim military conflict renders visible the rationalities of those commoners who voluntarily crossed the religious boundary, while the multi-tiered story convincingly drives home the argument that the motor of social and religious change was lay society rather than the clergy in this turbulent age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An introduction to a part of the world and its local scholarly literature seldom visited by western scholars, with well-chosen illustrations often reproduced in brilliant colour”.  – Jus Gentium, Vol. 4, No. 2 (July 2019), pp. 756-757.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements List of Maps and Illustrations 1 Introduction  Research Agenda  The Uses of Papal Pardon 2 Negotiating Apostasy  Apostates and Evangelicals  Cloisters and Learning  The Ambitious Common Man  Storytelling Strategies  Gaps in the Narrative  Conclusion 3 The Gates of Upward Social Mobility  The Social Origin of the Friars  Choosing the Cloister  Learning in the Cloister Schools  Learning in the Parish Schools  The Protean Literacy of the Lesser Clergy  Conclusion 4 From Savage to Civilized: Village Schools and Student Life  The Interactions of Students and Locals  The Dense Network of Parish Schools in the Countryside  The Presence of Literate and “Civilized” Men in Rural Communities  Conclusion 5 Life Outside the Walls: Clergymen on the Road  The Parish Church and Cloister in the Community  Masses of Unbeneficed Clergy  The Unbeneficed as Criminals  Parish Incumbents and the Unbeneficed  Ordained in Rome  Conclusion 6 The Heyday of Popular Culture: The Shared Time and Space of Laity and Clergy  Defending Male Honor  Shared Spaces of Leisure  Carnival Every Day  Shared Practices  Leisure and Crime in the Dark  Festivities and Violence  Shared Concepts of Magic  Conclusion 7 Contested Coexistence: Lay-Clerical Disputes and Their Settlement  Enmities and the Language of Emotions  Clergymen as the Mediators of the Sacred  Clergymen as Members of Local Communities  Honor and Hatred: The Script of Lay-Clerical Conflicts  The Communal Definition of Criminals  Conclusion 8 Tales of a Peasant Revolt  Two Competing Myths of Just War  Representations of Violence: Private and Public Perspectives  György Dózsa, the Martyr b\u0026gt;9 Shifting Identities in the Christian-Muslim Contact Zone  “Apostate” Spouses  Christian “Bigamists”  Latin and Orthodox Christian Intermarriages  Conclusion b\u0026gt;10 Conclusion Bibliography Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210746159447,"sku":"9789004361157","price":136.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/negotiating-violence-papal-pardons-and-everyday-life-in-east-central-europe-1450-1550-9789004361157","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}