Violence in Medieval Europe

by Brown; Warren C.

• ISBN13: 9781405811644
• ISBN10: 1405811641
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The European Middle Ages have long enjoyed a reputation as a very violent period. Violence was part of everyday life and of church and state. This new textbook helps students to connect imagination to history by synthesizing recent scholarship and current debates on the topic, and enabling them to understand to what degree violence characterized medieval Europe. Contains lots of examples to bring the topic alive for students A broad chronological coverage Synthesises and comments on a vast breadth of scholarship on the subject

Author 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.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	p. vii
Preface and Author Acknowledgements	p. ix
Publisher's Acknowledgements	p. xii
Abbreviations	p. xiv
Violence and the Medieval Historian	p. 1
Competing Orders	p. 31
Violence Among the Early Franks	p. 33
Charlemagne, God, and the License to Kill	p. 69
Local and Royal Power in the Eleventh Century	p. 97
Violence, the Aristocracy, and the Church at the Turn of the First Millennium	p. 99
Violence and Ritual	p. 135
Twelfth-Century Transformations	p. 165
Violence, the Princes, and the Towns	p. 167
Violence and the Law in England	p. 195
A Monopoly on Violence?	p. 221
A Saxon Mirror	p. 223
Violence and War in France	p. 255
Conclusion: Competing Norms, and the Legacy of Medieval Violence	p. 288
Bibliography	p. 298
Index	p. 313
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