To the best of my memory, some of the issues raised about Turpin, or any
historical bishop engaged in warfare, are touched upon in the following
dissertation (which I read in drafts as it was being done):
Sally Anne Scully, Killing ex officio: the teachings of the twelfth and
thirteenth century canon lawyers on the right to kill (Harvard, 1976).
There are several passages on bishops in war in:
frederick Russell, The just war in the middle Ages (Cambridge UP, 1975).
A friend once considered doing a dissertation on "bashing bishops," who
used maces instead of swords to avoid shedding blood. This opens up the
whole topic of blood prohibitions, ranging from war to gender issues,
which would be enormous to address, esp. because of its biblical roots.
tom izbicki
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