Moral Treatment of Returning Warriors in Early Medieval and Modern Times

This work is the first book-length study devoted exclusively to a scholarly and systematic analysis of how soldiers returning from battle have been, or should be, treated morally. Long-scattered historical material is pulled together from a variety of sources to show why and how the early medieval custom of imposing penances on returning warriors first originated, and then, by the end of the Middle Ages, had lapsed into disuse.Verkamp, Bernard J. is the author of 'Moral Treatment of Returning Warriors in Early Medieval and Modern Times' with ISBN 9780940866225 and ISBN 0940866226.