ABSTRACT
In addition, researchers are interested in discovering whether or not the Peace of God had a practical, especially geographical and legal impact –particularly in limiting the malae consuetudines, the evil customs. The Peace rules and their application were thus integrated into the negotiation of rights and power between count and abbot. The council of Poitiers in 1011-14 referred directly to these rules, by making reference to their origin at the council of Charroux, they were well known in the whole of France during the eleventh century. The mixture of accomplishments and setbacks experienced by the bishops of Aquitaine points to the fact that the Peace councils were part of a complex set of negotiations and compromises, and thus provided contemporary norms of conflict-resolution. Especially based on Raoul Glaber's testimony, other historians have developed a second crucial aspect of the Peace of God: the religious mass movement with the laymen taking the initiative for the peace.
