Cover illustration: St. Olav altar frontal. Section one / first scene. King Olav of Norway makes a generous money offering to the clergyman while marching to war against the pagans. Trondheim, Nidaros Cathedral(?), ca. 1300. Now in Archbishop’s Palace Museum in Trondheim. With kind permission of © Daniela Pawel, The Restoration Workshop of Nidaros Cathedral.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kotecki, Radosław, editor. | Maciejewski, Jacek, editor. | Leighton, Gregory, editor.
Title: Religious rites of war beyond the medieval West / edited by Radosław Kotecki,
Jacek Maciejewski, Gregory Leighton.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] | Series: Explorations in medieval culture,
2352-0299 ; volume 24 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents: Volume 1. Northern Europe and the Baltic—Volume 2. Central and Eastern Europe.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023036478 (print) | LCCN 2023036479 (ebook) |
ISBN 9789004683426 (set ; hardback) | ISBN 9789004683402 (v. 1 ; hardback) |
ISBN 9789004683419 (v. 2 ; hardback) | ISBN 9789004686366 (v. 1 ; ebook) |
ISBN 9789004686373 (v. 2 ; ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Military history, Medieval. | War—Religious aspects—Christianity. |
Christianity and politics—Europe—History—To 1500. | Church and state--Europe—
History—To 1500. | Church history—Middle Ages, 600–1500. | Europe—History, Military.
Classification: LCC D128 .R45 2023 (print) | LCC D128 (ebook) | DDC 355.009/02—dc23/ENG/20230831
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023036478
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023036479
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ISSN 2352-0299
ISBN 978-90-04-68342-6 (set)
ISBN 978-90-04-68340-2 (hardback, vol. 1)
ISBN 978-90-04-68636-6 (e-book, vol. 1)
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DOI 10.1163/9789004686366
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