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Vengeance in the Middle Ages Emotion, Religion and Feud
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume aims to balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture in the Middle Ages. A diverse assortment of interdisciplinary essays from scholars in Europe and North America contest or enlarge traditional approaches to and interpretations of vengeance in the Middle Ages. Each essay attempts to clarify the... Read more
Vengeance in the Middle Ages
Biography
Professor Susanna A. Throop, Ursinus College, USA and Professor Paul R. Hyams, Cornell University, USA.
'This volume, with its diversity of scholarly approaches, sources, and contexts, will certainly help to elucidate further this blend of complexity and coherence that lay behind processes of feud and vengeance in the Middle Ages.' Journal of British Studies 'Susanna Throop and Paul Hyams deserve congratulations for producing this diverse but largely coherent collection of essays on the theme of vengeance... essential reading for those writing about vengeance and feuding in the future.' English Historical Review
