By Robert A. Williams Jr
ISBN-10: 0195080025
ISBN-13: 9780195080025
ISBN-10: 1423758498
ISBN-13: 9781423758495
Exploring the background of up to date criminal inspiration at the rights and standing of the West's colonized indigenous tribal peoples, Williams the following strains the improvement of the subjects that justified and impelled Spanish, English, and American conquests of the hot international.
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Additional papal support was provided in the form of specified spiritual favors for the warriors pledged to fight in the reconquista campaigns. The Christian combatants received a general benediction, and the slaying of infidels in the reconquista wars was specifically excepted from the Church's normal prohibitions on homicide. 54 Pope Alexander's grant of this "signal spiritual privilege," as the medievalist James Brundage has called it,55 represents the first instance of note during the Middle Ages in which the papacy fully exploited its ecclesiastical authority to forgive sins in order to further directly the goals of a secular military campaign led in defense of the rights of Christendom.
D. 18 As the East's disintegrating power ceased to exercise influence in the western part of the empire, the Church itself was enabled to define a separate civilization energized by the central themes of the unity and hierarchy represented in the Church universal. " The will to empire expressed in this central vision of a universal order established through law and lawgiving is a distinctive feature of the West's 18 Medieval and Renaissance Origins colonizing discourses of conquest. Interestingly enough, the emergence of this imperial vision of one right way of life for all humankind, realized on earth under the supreme lordship of the Roman pontiff, can be found articulated in the legal discourse of an institution whose founder reportedly preached the rewards of a nonworldly empire.
These goals included the aboliton of lay investiture, the assertion of the papacy's Petrine mandate to shepherd and care for the souls of all God's flock, the extension of the actual boundaries of the papacy's theoretical "frontierless" jurisdiction, and the continued exercise of the asserted papal right to intervene in secular affairs where the spiritual welfare of the societas Christiana was implicated. As pope, therefore, Urban was certainly not averse to the idea of a holy war in defense of Christendom, the cornerstone of Gregorian hierocratic militarism.