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Capital in the church of Revilla de Collazos depicting the Peace and Truce of God: two mounted knights aim to duel, but a woman holds them back by the reins. [1]The Peace and Truce of God (Latin: Pax et treuga Dei) was a movement in the Middle Ages led by the Catholic Church and was one of the most influential mass peace movements in history. [2]
Matthew Gabbert reviewed Pax Dei in White Wolf #37 (July/Aug., 1993), rating it a 4 out of 5 and stated that "A brief outline for a Saga concludes the sourcebook, but it's pretty much an afterthought. It does serve to illustrate how all of the elements presented earlier in Pax Dei can be tied together into a coherent and playable setting ...
The Pax Dei prohibited nobles from invading churches, beating the defenseless, and burning houses. Excommunication would be the punishment for attacking or robbing a church, for robbing peasants or the poor of farm animals and for robbing, striking or seizing a priest or any man of the clergy "who is not bearing arms". Making compensation or ...
Periodic table: Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) [70] Arranged the sixty-six elements known at the time in order of atomic weight by periodic intervals (1869). Physical chemistry: Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765) The first to read lectures in physical chemistry and coin the term (1752). Jacobus van 't Hoff (1852–1911)
Adapted from Pax Romana. Pax Britannica: British Peace: A euphemism for the British Empire. Adapted from Pax Romana: Pax Christi: Peace of Christ: Used as a wish before the Holy Communion in the Catholic Mass, also the name of the peace movement Pax Christi: pax Dei: peace of God: Used in the Peace and Truce of God movement in 10th-century ...
The word "pax" together with the Latin name of an empire or nation is used to refer to a period of peace or at least stability, enforced by a hegemon, a so-called Pax imperia ("Imperial peace"). The following is a list of periods of regional peace, sorted by alphabetical order.
Computer science: Samuel C. Bradford: Bruun Rule: Earth science Per Bruun Buys Ballot's law: Meteorology: C.H.D. Buys Ballot: Byerlee's law: Geophysics: James Byerlee: Carnot's theorem: Thermodynamics: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot: Cauchy's integral formula Cauchy–Riemann equations See also: List of things named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy ...
Addressing the problems of racism and anti-semitism in 1939, Pius XII said: What a wonderful vision, which makes us contemplate the human race in the unity of its origin in God in the unity of its nature, composed equally in all men of a material body and a spiritual soul; in the unity of its immediate end and its mission in the world; in the unity of its dwelling, the earth, whose benefits ...