Not true, the mutual excommunications of 1054 did not result in war, and even during the Fourth Crusade Innocent III expressly forbade the use of the religious differences between Rome and Constantinople as a reason to attack the city (which the Venetians withheld from the Crusaders).
I wasn't thinking about religious differences as much as the physical assault against a church leader which is itself an act of war. Though in this case it looks like local security, so there may have been a peasant revolt against the local lord for treachery. I mean you had hundreds of battles over much sillier things. (popes engaging in territorial conquest, land squabbles between barons, drunken celebration marches turning into battles, and the "War of the Oaken Bucket" which probably wasn't really over a bucket but was still pointless tit-for-tat for no good reason) If you're requiring the Church to define "just cause" then yes that would depend on what the Orthodox church officials said.
Remember when that Muslim cut off that priest's head in France? Shit happened right in church. That was the moment I realized the West was lost. No one did anything in retaliation. If roles had been reversed, there would have been blood in the streets for days.
Did they throw the old man to the ground to try and shut him up?
In the middle ages that would be just cause for war.
It's still a just cause for war, but we do not live in a just world.
Not true, the mutual excommunications of 1054 did not result in war, and even during the Fourth Crusade Innocent III expressly forbade the use of the religious differences between Rome and Constantinople as a reason to attack the city (which the Venetians withheld from the Crusaders).
I wasn't thinking about religious differences as much as the physical assault against a church leader which is itself an act of war. Though in this case it looks like local security, so there may have been a peasant revolt against the local lord for treachery. I mean you had hundreds of battles over much sillier things. (popes engaging in territorial conquest, land squabbles between barons, drunken celebration marches turning into battles, and the "War of the Oaken Bucket" which probably wasn't really over a bucket but was still pointless tit-for-tat for no good reason) If you're requiring the Church to define "just cause" then yes that would depend on what the Orthodox church officials said.
War of Jenkins' Ear was the absolute best.
Remember when that Muslim cut off that priest's head in France? Shit happened right in church. That was the moment I realized the West was lost. No one did anything in retaliation. If roles had been reversed, there would have been blood in the streets for days.
It's what jackboots do.