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An engaging volume which makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the medieval clergy and the attitudes (both idealistic and pragmatic) which shaped them. HISTORY Will be of real value to all interested in clerical warfare, not to mention those concerned with some individual prelates of the age. SEHEPUNKTE [A]dmirably challenges the prevailing scholarly narrative that militant clerks in England either were anachronistic holdovers from an earlier age, or compelled contemporary observers to suffer from cognitive dissonance . This volume will be of great value to specialists as well as to advanced students in courses on medieval religion, culture, and military history. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW Bishop Wimund of Man and the Isles waged a guerrilla war against King David of Scotland in the second quarter of the 12th century ... But what were bishops doing leading armies in the first place? The theory and reality of this in the period 1000- 1250 is now explored in the splendidly named Warrior Churchmen of Medieval England by Craig M Nakashian. THE TELEGRAPH Gives a deft treatment of the tight interconnection between religion and politics during this age of faith par excellence....[A] scholarly, lively and absorbing book. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Nakashian is persuasive in arguing that military violence by church leaders persisted and remained a contested issue throughout the High Middle Ages. CHOICE

Represents a valuable contribution to our understanding of the function and reception of prelates as active participants in the political and social structures of medieval England. PARERGON An engaging volume which makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the medieval clergy and the attitudes (both idealistic and pragmatic) which shaped them. HISTORY Will be of real value to all interested in clerical warfare, not to mention those concerned with some individual prelates of the age. SEHEPUNKTE [A]dmirably challenges the prevailing scholarly narrative that militant clerks in England either were anachronistic holdovers from an earlier age, or compelled contemporary observers to suffer from cognitive dissonance ... This volume will be of great value to specialists as well as to advanced students in courses on medieval religion, culture, and military history. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW Bishop Wimund of Man and the Isles waged a guerrilla war against King David of Scotland in the second quarter of the 12th century ... But what were bishops doing leading armies in the first place? The theory and reality of this in the period 1000- 1250 is now explored in the splendidly named Warrior Churchmen of Medieval England by Craig M Nakashian. THE TELEGRAPH Gives a deft treatment of the tight interconnection between religion and politics during this age of faith par excellence. ... [A] scholarly, lively and absorbing book. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Nakashian is persuasive in arguing that military violence by church leaders persisted and remained a contested issue throughout the High Middle Ages. CHOICE

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CRAIG M. NAKASHIAN is Dean of the Honors College and a professor of History at Texas A&M University-Texarkana.

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