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The period from 1100 to 1300 has been seen as both an important point within the process of governmental centralisation, and a time of intense conflict and disorder.
List of contents
Introduction: Peacemaking and the Restraint of Violence in High Medieval Europe
Simon Lebouteiller and Louisa Taylor
Part 1 - Restraining Violence: Ideas and Practices
Chapter 1 - The Submission of Rebellious Cities in the Roman-German Empire
Hermann Kamp
Chapter 2 - Peace or Punishment in Medieval England: From 1215 to 1322
Stephen D. White
Chapter 3 - 'Be at peace with God and me': Violence, War, and Royal Responses to Insurrection in Medieval Scotland, c. 1100-1286
Iain MacIness
Chapter 4 - Conflicts and the Use of Exile as a Means of Restraining Violence in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Castile-León
Harald Endre Tafjord
Part 2 - Negotiating and Defining Peace
Chapter 5 - The 'Old Peace' as a Peacemaking Institution in Thirteenth-Century German-Russian Trade Treaties
Tobias Boestad
Chapter 6 - Encounters at the Water's Edge: Peace Meetings on Rivers, Bridges, and Islands in Medieval Scandinavia
Simon Lebouteiller
Chapter 7 - God's Peace and the King's Peace in High Medieval Norway
David Brégaint
Part 3 - Establishing and Maintaining Relationships
Chapter 8 - Food, Peacemaking, and Maintenance in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century England
Lars Kjær
Chapter 9 - Food and Clothing in Rituals of Peacemaking in Medieval Europe and the Latin East
Yvonne Friedman
Chapter 10 - Cloth, Clothing, and Peacemaking in Byzantium: From the Second Part of the Eleventh Century to the Middle of the Thirteenth Century
Nicolas Drocourt
About the author
Simon Lebouteiller holds a PhD in Medieval History and taught History and Scandinavian Studies at the Universities of Oslo and Sorbonne. He is currently an Associate Professor of Old Norse and Icelandic Studies at the University of Caen, Normandy, and a member of the research centre ERLIS (Équipe de Recherche sur les Littératures, les Imaginaires et les Sociétés). His research investigates peacemaking, rituals, political practices, and ideologies in medieval Scandinavia, as well as Norse historiography. He has also translated Icelandic sagas into French, such as
Knýtlinga saga (
La saga des rois de Danemark: Knýtlinga saga. Transl. Simon Lebouteiller. Toulouse: 2021).
Louisa Taylor is Lecturer in Medieval History at Aberystwyth University and Lecturer in History at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI). Her research explores elite culture and behaviour during conflict in high and late medieval Scandinavia, Iceland, England, Wales, and the Baltic region using comparative perspectives.
