344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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The European Middle Ages have long attracted popular interest as an era characterised by violence, whether a reflection of societal brutality and lawlessness or part of a romantic vision of chivalry. Violence in Medieval Europe engages with current scholarly debate about the degree to which medieval European society was in fact shaped by such forces.
Drawing on a wide variety of primary... Read more
1.Violence and the Medieval Historian Part One Competing Orders 2. Violence among the early Franks 3. Charlemagne, God, and the License to Kill Part Two Local and Royal Power in the Eleventh Century 4. Violence, the Aristocracy, and the Church at the Turn of the First Millennium 5. Violence and Ritual Part Three Twelfth-Century Transformations 6. Violence, the Princes, and the Towns 7. Violence and the Law in England Part Four A Monopoly on Violence? 8. A Saxon Mirror 9. Violence and War in France 10. Conclusion: Competing Norms and the Legacy of Medieval Violence
Biography
Warren C. Brown is Associate Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. His previous publications include Unjust Seizure: Conflict, Interest, and Authority in an Early Medieval Society .
