La Iglesia del Occidente europeo frente a las incursiones vikingas de los siglos IX al XI
- 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España
ISSN: 0482-5748
Year of publication: 2018
Issue Title: Iglesia y guerra en la Edad Media
Issue: 1
Pages: 269-300
Type: Article
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Abstract
The Viking raids of the 9th – 11th centuries had a significant impact on Western Europe. The Church –a sacred and trans-regional institution–, one of the pillars of High Medieval society, suffered the blunt of the pillaging with shock. These pages offer a comparative analysis of the theological view of the pagan aggression, as well as of the diverse intellectual, material and military reactions of the clergy in the Anglo-Saxon, Frankish and Hispanic contexts, paying special attention to the latter.