La Crosse Brisée: Des Évéque Agressés Dans Une Eglise En Conflits

From the end of the 10th to the early 13th century, more than sixty bishops in France were the subject of violent attacks. Dismissing their apparent diversity, Myriam Soria Audebert compares the different violent episodes, finding similarities between them which, she argues, makes them more than simple accidents of isolated incidents. Categorising these attacks as either assassinations, expulsions or epsodes of captivity, many of which can be linked to periods of political or religious upheaval, she looks at particular case studies including attacks on bishops in Limoges, Clermont, Le Puy, Poitiers, Bourdeaux, Rouen, Arras, Paris, Le Mans and Orléans. She goes on to discuss these acts of violence as a more genereal phenomenon within the church in France and the Christian west. French text.