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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Daniel Lord Smail and Kelly Gibson Klappentext How did medieval society deal with private justice, with grudges, and with violent emotions? This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages. Zusammenfassung How did medieval society deal with private justice! with grudges! and with violent emotions? This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I. Prologue: Sources for the Medieval Language of Vengeance Chapter One: The Old Testament 1. The Pollution of Kin-Slaying 2. The Law of the Talion 3. Vengeance and Emotion 4. The Principle of Sanctuary 5. The Levite's Concubine 6. Humiliation and the Lord's Vengeance 7. Restraining the Vengeful Emotions 8. The Vengeance of the Maccabees Chapter Two: The New Testament 9. Peacemaking and the Ties of Kinship 10. Humility as Vengeance? Chapter Three: Roman Laws 11. Criminal Justice and Vengeance in the Theodosian Code and Sirmondian Constitutions 12. Criminal Justice and Vengeance in Justinian's Digest Part II. The Early Middle Ages (500-1000) Chapter Four: Codes, Capitularies, and Penitentials 13. The Laws of the Salian Franks 14. The Lombard Laws 15. Carolingian Capitularies 16. Early Medieval English Law 17. Emotion and Sin Chapter Five: Sermons, Exegesis, and Letters 18. Augustine on the Legitimacy of Fighting Back 19. Augustine on the Need to Await God's Vengeance 20. Jerome on Kindness and Cruelty 21. Law and the "Accursed Custom" of Vengeance in Theoderic's Italy 22. Isidore of Seville on the Law of the Talion 23. Pope Honorius Speaks of Justice as Vengeance 24. Smaragdus of St. Mihiel on Restraining Royal Anger 25. Hrabanus Maurus's Homily on Avoiding Anger and Homicide 26. Einhard on the Fear of Family Vengeance 27. Charles the Bald to Pope Nicholas on Vengeance without Violence 28. Vengeance for the "Hard Man" Chapter Six: Saints' Lives, Chronicles, and Epics 29. Jordanes on Vengeance and the Vandal Wars of Conquest 30. Gregory of Tours on Feuding and Vengeance 31. Gregory of Tours on God's Vengeance 32. Vengeance As the Devil's Work in the Life of Saint Sadalberga 33. Saint Amandus Rescues a Man from Judicial Vengeance 34. Saint Willibrord Forgoes Vengeance and Anger 35. History of the Lombards by Paul the Deacon 36. Einhard on the Peace Inspired by the Relics of Saints Marcellinus and Peter 37. Saint Gerald of Aurillac Seeks Peace with His Enemies 38. Liutprand of Cremona's Tit-For-Tat 39. Heroic Vengeance Chapter Seven: Formularies, Charters, and Judgments 40. Security for Peace after a Murder 41. An Orderly Merovingian Judgment 42. Lombard Notice of Judgment at Pavia Part III. The High Middle Ages (1000-1250) Chapter Eight: The Effort to Regulate Violence and Emotion 43. The Peace of God in Charroux 44. Penance for Homicide in the Decretum of Burchard of Worms 45. The Laws of the Family of St. Peter 46. The Penitential of Burchard of Worms 47. Truce of God in Arles 48. A Comital Peace Assembly of Barcelona 49. The Truce of God in Cologne 50. Peace of the Land in Mainz 51. The Laws of Henry I of England 52. The Usatges of Barcelona 53. Rules for Trial by Combat in Brescia 54. The Penitential of Alain of Lille 55. The Penitential of Robert of Flamborough 56. General Constitution Concern...
