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  • 20 - ‘Not Cruelty but Piety’

  • from Part IV - Religious, Sacred and Ritualised Violence
  • Edited by Matthew S. Gordon, University of Miami, Richard W. Kaeuper, University of Rochester, New York, Harriet Zurndorfer, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book:
    The Cambridge World History of Violence
    Published online:
    13 March 2020
    Print publication:
    26 March 2020, pp 411-425

  • Summary

    Was there such a thing as ‘crusading violence’? Traditionally the crusades have been distinguished from other forms of Christian warfare and violence motivated, or at least justified, by religion. However, as this chapter demonstrates, crusading violence cannot be distinguished by its practices, brutality, or complex ideologies. Given its diversity, crusading violence can only be demarcated as violence against purported enemies of Christ that was organized, communal, purportedly authorized, and believed to be spiritually beneficial. Viewed in this light, the distinction between crusading violence and other forms of Christian violence is tenuous indeed.