Violence in Medieval Society

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Richard W. Kaeuper

Product details

• Authors: M L Bohna, Richard W Kaeuper, Richard W. Kaeuper, H S Kay, J R S Phillips, Matthew Strickland, Matthew J Strickland
• Assisted by: Richard W Kaeuper (Editor), Richard W (Contributor) Kaeuper (Editor), Richard W. Kaeuper (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2000
• EAN: 9780851157740
• ISBN: 978-0-85115-774-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 245 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Gewalt und Missbrauch in der Gesellschaft, HISTORY / Medieval, History - General History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society