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Peace and Truce of God
The Peace and Truce of God was a medieval European movement of the Roman Catholic Church which applied spiritual sanctions in order to control and stop the violence of feudal society. The movement constituted the first organized attempt to control civil society in medieval Europe through non-violent means.
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