In the service of the Just War: Matilda of Tuscany (eleventh-twelfth centuries)

In the service of the Just War: Matilda of Tuscany (eleventh-twelfth centuries)

In medieval Europe, the art of war was considered to be specifically male. Nevertheless, in some chronicles or archive documents, one can find female warriors who fought to defend their fiefdoms or who enrolled in the ranks of the crusaders. Did civil and religious law allow this female practice of...

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Auteur principal: Cassagnes-Brouquet, Sophie
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Clio 2017
Sujets:
guerre juste
croisade
réforme grégorienne
empire
Mathilde de Toscane
Just war
crusades
Gregorian reform
Matilda of Tuscany
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:cliowgh_454 https://doi.org/10.4000/cliowgh.454 urn:doi:10.4000/cliowgh.454 en https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh/454 2017-06-19T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/e3s3 All rights reserved In the service of the Just War: Matilda of Tuscany (eleventh-twelfth centuries) Clio Belin info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2554-3822 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh Cassagnes-Brouquet, Sophie guerre juste croisade réforme grégorienne empire Mathilde de Toscane Just war crusades Gregorian reform empire Matilda of Tuscany In medieval Europe, the art of war was considered to be specifically male. Nevertheless, in some chronicles or archive documents, one can find female warriors who fought to defend their fiefdoms or who enrolled in the ranks of the crusaders. Did civil and religious law allow this female practice of war or was it totally prohibited? While civil laws clearly prohibited it, the Church’s response often appears more ambiguous. This was the case during the eleventh and twelfth centuries when, within the framework of the Investiture Controversy, the warlike activity of the countess Matilda of Tuscany gave rise to a debate pitting the supporters of the Papacy and the Gregorian reform against those of the Emperor Henry iv. The debate focused precisely on this question: do women have the right to wage war? Dans l’Europe médiévale, l’art de la guerre est considéré comme spécifiquement masculin. Et pourtant, au détour des chroniques et des documents d’archives, il est possible de croiser des guerrières qui combattent pour défendre leurs fiefs ou s’engagent parmi les rangs des croisés. Cette pratique de la guerre au féminin, très minoritaire, mais avérée, reposait-elle sur un droit, ou, bien au contraire, bravait-elle toutes les interdictions des lois civiles et religieuses ? Si le droit civil l’interdit, la réponse de l’Église semble parfois plus ambigüe. C’est le cas aux xie et xiie siècles où, dans le cadre de la Querelle des Investitures, la comtesse Mathilde de Toscane est à l’origine d’une polémique qui a vu s’opposer les partisans de la réforme grégorienne à ceux de l’empereur Henri iv et qui s’est précisément cristallisée sur cette question : les femmes ont-elles le droit de faire la guerre ?
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topic guerre juste
croisade
réforme grégorienne
empire
Mathilde de Toscane
Just war
crusades
Gregorian reform
empire
Matilda of Tuscany
spellingShingle guerre juste
croisade
réforme grégorienne
empire
Mathilde de Toscane
Just war
crusades
Gregorian reform
empire
Matilda of Tuscany
Cassagnes-Brouquet, Sophie
In the service of the Just War: Matilda of Tuscany (eleventh-twelfth centuries)
description In medieval Europe, the art of war was considered to be specifically male. Nevertheless, in some chronicles or archive documents, one can find female warriors who fought to defend their fiefdoms or who enrolled in the ranks of the crusaders. Did civil and religious law allow this female practice of war or was it totally prohibited? While civil laws clearly prohibited it, the Church’s response often appears more ambiguous. This was the case during the eleventh and twelfth centuries when, within the framework of the Investiture Controversy, the warlike activity of the countess Matilda of Tuscany gave rise to a debate pitting the supporters of the Papacy and the Gregorian reform against those of the Emperor Henry iv. The debate focused precisely on this question: do women have the right to wage war?
author Cassagnes-Brouquet, Sophie
author_facet Cassagnes-Brouquet, Sophie
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title In the service of the Just War: Matilda of Tuscany (eleventh-twelfth centuries)
title_short In the service of the Just War: Matilda of Tuscany (eleventh-twelfth centuries)
title_full In the service of the Just War: Matilda of Tuscany (eleventh-twelfth centuries)
title_fullStr In the service of the Just War: Matilda of Tuscany (eleventh-twelfth centuries)
title_full_unstemmed In the service of the Just War: Matilda of Tuscany (eleventh-twelfth centuries)
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