Violence in Medieval Society

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-85115-774-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Studies of ways in which the rapidly evolving society of medieval Europe developed social, legal and practical responses to public and private violence.

Violence was endemic in the medieval world, to an extent most modern people find shocking. Violence was part and parcel of the public world of institutions [church, state, chivalry] and the private world of households. In an age of dynamic expansion it was present everywhere, and contemporary response to it was contradictory: it was both wrong and at the same time a regulatory feature of society. This book brings together the views of a number of scholarson aspects of violence in medieval society, in England and the larger canvas of western Europe, from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. There is analysis of the tension between the practice of violence and hopes for reform; discussion of violence in literature; examination of assertive political acts and judicial duels and tournaments; and observations on the domestic scene and resistance to seigneurial impositions.

Professor RICHARD W. KAEUPER teaches in the Department of History at the University of Rochester.
Contributors: SARAH KAY, RICHARD W. KAEUPER, MATTHEW STRICKLAND, SEYMOUR PHILLIPS, M.L. BOHNA, PAUL HYAMS, AMY PHELAN, JULIET VALE, MALCOLM VALE, JAMES A.BRUNDAGE, BARBARA A. HANAWALT, EDMUND FRYDE

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaeuper, Richard W

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kay, H S

Kaeuper, Richard W

Strickland, Matthew

Phillips, J R S

Bohna, M L

Hyams, Paul

Phelan, Amy E

Vale, Juliet

Vale, Malcolm

Brundage, James A

Hanawalt, Barbara A

Fryde, E.B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Sublime Body of the Martyr. Violence in Early Romance Saints' Lives - H S Kay
Chivalry and the Civilizing Process - Richard W Kaeuper
A Law of Arms or a Law of Treason? Conduct in War in Edward I's Campaigns in Scotland, 1296-1307 - Matthew J Strickland
Simon de Montfort (1265), The Earl of Manchester (1644), and other stories: Violence and Politics in Thirteenth- and Early-Fourteenth Century EnglandCentury England - J R S Phillips
Political and Criminal Violence in Fifteenth-Century England - M L Bohna
Does it matter when the English began to distinguish between crime and tort? - Paul Hyams
Trailbaston and Attempts to Control Violence in the Reign of Edward I - Amy E Phelan
Violence and the Tournament - Juliet Vale
Aristocratic Violence: Trial by Battle in the Later Middle Ages - Malcolm Vale
Domestic Violence in Classical Canon Law - James A Brundage
Violence in the Domestic Milieu of Late Medieval England - Barbara A Hanawalt
Economic Depression in England in the Second and Third Quarters of the Fifteenth Century: Effective Resistances of Tenants to Landlords as one of its Consequences, Defiances and Rent StrikesLandlords as one of its Consequences, Defiances - E.B. Fryde