Sentence examples for truce of god from inspiring English sources
The ideals and reforms of the Peace and Truce of God contributed to a new understanding of knighthood as an honourable estate of Christian leadership.
Having just promulgated, at the Council, a historic Truce of God, which restricted combat between Christians to three days a week, Urban declared, "I exhort and demand that you, each, try hard to have the truce kept in your diocese.
A sudden friendship had been struck up, the truce of God had been called, and for the rest of Christmas Day not a shot was fired along our section".
Religious leaders proclaimed the Peace of God and the Truce of God, designed to halt or at least limit warfare and assaults during certain days of the week and times of the year and to protect the lives of clergy, travelers, women, and cattle and others unable to defend themselves against brigandage.
Supporting the goals of the Gregorian Reform movement, the synod also extended papal protection to the persons and property of pilgrims and gave papal sanction to the Peace of God and Truce of God movements, which promoted religious reform and sought to restrict warfare and protect clerics and other noncombatants in times of war.
It was supplemented from the 1020s by the Truce of God, which forbade fighting on certain days or during particular seasons of the year and which helped to mold a new conception of the knight as a Christian warrior prohibited from shedding the blood of other Christians.
And if anyone shall be led by his cupidity or arrogance to break this truce, by the authority of God and with the sanction of this Council he shall be anathematized".
Zeusophobia- Fear of God or gods.
