Christianity's stamp: Of hybrids, traitors, false peace, massacres and other horrors

The contribution focuses on the ways in which medieval Catholic religion influenced warfare, not terms of causality but conditions possibility. After having looked at (1) way crusades, particular, opened up possibility to transfer attributes from monastic asceticism (the monks were spiritual ‘warriors God’) warriors (fighting as God’), article examines two examples. (2) Theology provided Western European culture war figure ‘false brother’, which, translated, yielded a script for internal enemy, political traitor and adversary civil wars. Around this enormous fantasies crystallized themselves, arguably without equivalent non-monotheistic cultures. One sees late French wars semi-secularized mobilization figure, with execution violent purge. (3) ascetic values activated warfare First Crusade meant that while reality (as one would expect) sexual did transgressions occur, rape by one’s own side was hardly ever admitted, also inhibited.