Council of Toulouges declares the Peace of God

1027

Catalan bishops meeting near Perpignan decreed the Truce of God, forbidding warfare from Thursday night through Monday morning and on all religious festivals. It was a Church response to the private feuds eating southern France. Enforcement was spotty, but the principle reshaped medieval conscience for generations and represented the first sustained attempt by any institution to impose limits on the endemic violence of feudal society.