Contents

• We shed no blood but our own : the early church and warfare (A.D. 30-300)
• The thundering legion : how the slaughtered saints became sporadic soldiers (A.D. 150-325)
• The unholy marriage : when the church became a mistress (A.D 476-1087)
• "God wills it!" : when Christ commanded a jihad (November 27 1095-July 17, 1099)
• Sanctified slaughter : when the body of Christ became the army of God
• "Pyrrhic victory" : the disintegration of Crusades into defeat (1099-1291)
• Ask and you shall receive : the inquisition of the Middle Ages
• Magisterial mayhem : when a state-run church leads to blood-filled streets
• Let the heathen worship! A struggle from within
• The call of the Crusaders : learning from history
• Appendix A : the just war criteria
• Appendix B : comparison of the speeches of Pope Urban II (1095) and Usamah bin Laden (1998)