Military Chaplains and the Religion of War in Ottonian Germany, 919–1024
The Ottonian kings of Germany (919-1024) inherited from their Carolingian predecessors a tripartite system of pastoral care for the army. At the most basic level, the Ottonian kings provided chaplains to their soldiers to hear their confessions before battle. At the army-wide level, priests and bish...
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2011
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Religion, state & society
Year: 2011, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 13-31 |
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