Vengeance In Medieval Europe

Author : Daniel Lord Smail,Kelly Gibson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442601260

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Vengeance in Medieval Europe by Daniel Lord Smail,Kelly Gibson Pdf

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 This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages. The sources collected here illustrate the power and reach of the language of vengeance in medieval European society. They span the early, high, and later middle ages, and capture a range of perspectives including legal sources, learned commentaries, narratives, and documents of practice. Though social elites necessarily figure prominently in all medieval sources, sources concerning relatively low-status individuals and sources pertaining to women are included. The sources range from saints' lives that illustrate the idea of vengeance to later medieval court records concerning vengeful practices. A secondary goal of the collection is to illustrate the prominence of mechanisms for peacemaking in medieval European society. The introduction traces recent scholarly developments in the study of vengeance and discusses the significance of these concepts for medieval political and social history.

Author : University of Toronto Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1442601744

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Vengeance in Medieval Europe (Set) by University of Toronto Press Pdf

Author : Paul R. Hyams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317002475

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Vengeance in the Middle Ages by Paul R. Hyams Pdf

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 multifaceted experience of vengeance within a specific medieval context”a particular region, a particular text, a particular social movement. By asking what relationship a distinct factor like authorship or religion has with the concept of vengeance, each author points towards the breadth of meanings of medieval vengeance, and to the heart of the deeper and broader questions that spur scholarly interest in the subject. Geographically, the essays in the volume highlight Western Europe (particularly the Anglo-Norman world), Scotland, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal. Thematically, the essays are concerned with heroic cultures of vengeance, vengeance as a legal and political tool, Christian justification and expression of vengeance, literature and the distinction between discourse and reality, and the emotions of vengeance. Methodologically, these interdisciplinary studies incorporate tools borrowed from anthropology, the study of emotion, and modern social and literary theories. This volume is aimed at professional scholars and graduate students within the broad field of medieval studies, including the subfields of history, literature, and religious studies, and is intended to inspire further research on medieval vengeance. However, this collection will also prove interesting to non-medievalists interested in the history of emotion, the justification of human conflict, and the concept of feud and its applicability to specific historical periods.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004366374

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Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

The essays in this Festschrift for William Ian Miller reflect the honorand's wide-ranging interest in legal history, Icelandic sagas, anger and violence, and contemporary popular culture.

Author : Susanna A. Throop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317156734

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Crusading as an Act of Vengeance, 1095–1216 by Susanna A. Throop Pdf

Only recently have historians of the crusades begun to seriously investigate the presence of the idea of crusading as an act of vengeance, despite its frequent appearance in crusading sources. Understandably, many historians have primarily concentrated on non-ecclesiastical phenomena such as feuding, purportedly a component of "secular" culture and the interpersonal obligations inherent in medieval society. This has led scholars to several assumptions regarding the nature of medieval vengeance and the role that various cultures of vengeance played in the crusading movement. This monograph revises those assumptions and posits a new understanding of how crusading was conceived as an act of vengeance in the context of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Through textual analysis of specific medieval vocabulary it has been possible to clarify the changing course of the concept of vengeance in general as well as the more specific idea of crusading as an act of vengeance. The concept of vengeance was intimately connected with the ideas of justice and punishment. It was perceived as an expression of power, embedded in a series of commonly understood emotional responses, and also as an expression of orthodox Christian values. There was furthermore a strong link between religious zeal, righteous anger, and the vocabulary of vengeance. By looking at these concepts in detail, and in the context of current crusading methodologies, fresh vistas are revealed that allow for a better understanding of the crusading movement and those who "took the cross," with broader implications for the study of crusading ideology and twelfth-century spirituality in general.

Author : Warren C. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317866213

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Violence in Medieval Europe by Warren C. Brown Pdf

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 sources, Warren Brown examines the norms governing violence within medieval societies from the sixth to the fourteenth century, over an area covering the Romance and the Germanic-speaking regions of the continent as well as England. Scholars have often told the story of violence and power in the Middle Ages as one in which 'private' violence threatened and sometimes destroyed 'public' order. Yet academics are now asking to what degree violence that we might call private, in contrast to the violence wielded by a central authority, might have been an effective social tool. Here, Brown looks at how private individuals exercised violence in defence of their rights or in vengeance for wrongs within a set of clearly understood social rules, and how over the course of this period, kings began to claim the exclusive right to regulate the violence of their subjects as part of their duty to uphold God's order on earth. Violence in Medieval Europe provides both an original take on the subject and an illuminating synthesis of recent and classic scholarship. It will be invaluable to students and scholars of history, medieval studies and related areas, for the light it casts not just on violence, but on the evolution of the medieval political order.

Author : Peter Arnade,Walter Prevenier
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801455759

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Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble by Peter Arnade,Walter Prevenier Pdf

Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letters—petitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to monarchs and princes in France and the Low Countries in the hopes of receiving a full pardon. The fifteenth-century Burgundian Low Countries and duchy of Burgundy produced a large cache of these petitions, from both major cities (Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and Dijon) and rural communities. In Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble, Peter Arnade and Walter Prevenier present the first study in English of these letters to explore and interrogate the boundaries between these sources' internal, discursive properties and the social world beyond the written text.Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble takes the reader out onto the streets and into the taverns, homes, and workplaces of the Burgundian territories, charting the most pressing social concerns of the day: everything from family disputes and vendettas to marital infidelity and property conflicts—and, more generally, the problems of public violence, abduction and rape, and the role of honor and revenge in adjudicating disputes. Arnade and Prevenier examine why the right to pardon was often enacted by the Burgundian dukes and how it came to compete with more traditional legal means of resolving disputes. In addition, they consider the pardon letter as a historical source, highlighting the limitations and pitfalls of relying on documents that are, by their very nature, narratives shaped by the petitioner to seek a favored outcome. The book also includes a detailed case study of a female actress turned prostitute.An example of microhistory at its best, Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble will challenge scholars while being accessible to students in courses on medieval and early modern Europe or on historiography.

Author : Adriano Prosperi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674659841

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Crime and Forgiveness by Adriano Prosperi Pdf

A provocative analysis of how Christianity helped legitimize the death penalty in early modern Europe, then throughout the Christian world, by turning execution into a great cathartic public ritual and the condemned into a Christ-like figure who accepts death to save humanity. The public execution of criminals has been a common practice ever since ancient times. In this wide-ranging investigation of the death penalty in Europe from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, noted Italian historian Adriano Prosperi identifies a crucial period when legal concepts of vengeance and justice merged with Christian beliefs in repentance and forgiveness. Crime and Forgiveness begins with late antiquity but comes into sharp focus in fourteenth-century Italy, with the work of the Confraternities of Mercy, which offered Christian comfort to the condemned and were for centuries responsible for burying the dead. Under the brotherhoods’ influence, the ritual of public execution became Christianized, and the doomed person became a symbol of the fallen human condition. Because the time of death was known, this “ideal” sinner could be comforted and prepared for the next life through confession and repentance. In return, the community bearing witness to the execution offered forgiveness and a Christian burial. No longer facing eternal condemnation, the criminal in turn publicly forgave the executioner, and the death provided a moral lesson to the community. Over time, as the practice of Christian comfort spread across Europe, it offered political authorities an opportunity to legitimize the death penalty and encode into law the right to kill and exact vengeance. But the contradictions created by Christianity’s central role in executions did not dissipate, and squaring the emotions and values surrounding state-sanctioned executions was not simple, then or now.

Author : Susanna A. Throop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Crusades
ISBN : 1315575205

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Crusading as an Act of Vengeance, 1095-1216 by Susanna A. Throop Pdf

Author : Jeppe Büchert Netterstrøm,Bjørn Poulsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Revenge
ISBN : UCSC:32106019481818

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Feud in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Jeppe Büchert Netterstrøm,Bjørn Poulsen Pdf

We tend to think of a feud as being a long established state of hostilities, especially between families or clans, which normally manifests itself in revengeful violence. One of the articles in this volume thus states: "What began as a dispute over the property rights of a woman to whom both parties were related quickly mutated into a violent clash between men, in which honour and reputation were at stake -- and from here to a full-blown feud the distance was rather short". However, the studies of feuds presented in this publication leave no doubt that they were very different in different societies. The phenomenon of feud turns out to be intimately connected with developments in society and state. Consequently, in recent years a growing interest has been aroused in further researching the topic and the aim of this book is therefore to present some of the principal positions of this new research. Contributions by leading scholars in the field cover a large span of years, from the classic Icelandic feuds of the Sagas to more recent Early-Modern incidents. One contribution even takes us back to the roots of mankind, but the focus of the book is mainly on the Medieval and Early-Modern period. The volume is opened with a comprehensive introduction to the field, followed by a chapter that seeks general definitions. Hereafter, we are presented with specific cases of Icelandic women from the Sagas who promote feuds, studies of feuds in 14th century Marseilles, Italian Medieval vendettas, and feuding in Medieval Germany and Denmark.

Author : Stephen K. Wright
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0888440898

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The Vengeance of Our Lord by Stephen K. Wright Pdf

Analyzes the medieval dramatic tradition of history plays (Vengeance of Our Lord) on the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, 70 CE, which enjoyed widespread popularity in the 14th-16th centuries in Germany, France, England, Spain, and Italy. Describes the development of the tradition, and shows how medieval dramatists made use of antisemitic stereotypes and transformed the distant non-Christian past to address contemporary Christian audiences. Traces the sources of this dramatic tradition to Hesegippus's translation of Josephus Flavius in which the fall of Jerusalem is interpreted by Hesegippus as God's punishment of the Jews for deicide, to Church sermons on the Gospels, and to the Vindicta Salvatoris genre describing Titus as a recent convert leading a Christian crusade against deicide Jews who reject the true faith. Includes microfiche reproductions of "Ludus de assumptione beatae Mariae virginis, " "Gothaer Botenrolle, " and Eustache Marcade's "La vengance Jhesucrist."

Author : Catherine Kean
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798839894570

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A Knight's Vengeance by Catherine Kean Pdf

Will he sacrifice everything to avenge a wrongful death...even the love of a lifetime? England, 1192. Geoffrey de Lanceau burns for revenge, no matter how dishonorable. Refusing to believe his slain father was a traitor, the bitter lord vows to see justice at any cost. So when he rescues a beautiful damsel and discovers she's the daughter of his sworn enemy, he trades his urge to kiss her senseless for a cunning plan of retribution. Lady Elizabeth Brackendale fears her heart will never be free. Kept under her father's heavy guard and unhappily betrothed to a lustful old baron, she unexpectedly falls into the arms of a handsome knight who saves her life...and ignites a fiery attraction. But when his gallantry suddenly disappears and he abducts her from her home, she's terrified her destiny is forever out of her hands. Holding the captivating young lady hostage in his keep, Geoffrey sets her up as ransom even as it chafes against his chivalrous code. But though Elizabeth tries to ignore her forbidden feelings and prevent a battle between the two archenemies, she yearns for the man who is not the monster that he claims. Will this conflicted pair conquer the sins of the past and claim a passion-filled future? A Knight's Vengeance is the thrilling first book in the exciting Knight's historical romance series. If you like gripping characters, emotionally charged action, and strong sexual tension, then you'll adore Catherine Kean's swoon-worthy adventure. Buy A Knight's Vengeance to pit loyalty against desire today!

Author : Sister Mary Bonaventure Mroz
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Revenge in literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Divine Vengeance: A Study in the Philosophical Backgrounds of the Revenge Motif as It Appears in Shakespeare's Chronicle History Plays by Sister Mary Bonaventure Mroz Pdf

Author : Trevor Dean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317881773

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Crime in Medieval Europe by Trevor Dean Pdf

What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black Death? From Aberdeen to Cracow and from Stockholm to Sardinia, Trevor Dean ranges widely throughout medieval Europe in this exiting and innovative history of lawlessness and criminal justice. Drawing on the real-life stories of ordinary men and women who often found themselves at the sharp end of the law, he shows how it was often one rule for the rich and another for the poor in a tangled web of judicial corruption.

Author : Paul R. Hyams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317002468

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Vengeance in the Middle Ages by Paul R. Hyams Pdf

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 multifaceted experience of vengeance within a specific medieval context”a particular region, a particular text, a particular social movement. By asking what relationship a distinct factor like authorship or religion has with the concept of vengeance, each author points towards the breadth of meanings of medieval vengeance, and to the heart of the deeper and broader questions that spur scholarly interest in the subject. Geographically, the essays in the volume highlight Western Europe (particularly the Anglo-Norman world), Scotland, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal. Thematically, the essays are concerned with heroic cultures of vengeance, vengeance as a legal and political tool, Christian justification and expression of vengeance, literature and the distinction between discourse and reality, and the emotions of vengeance. Methodologically, these interdisciplinary studies incorporate tools borrowed from anthropology, the study of emotion, and modern social and literary theories. This volume is aimed at professional scholars and graduate students within the broad field of medieval studies, including the subfields of history, literature, and religious studies, and is intended to inspire further research on medieval vengeance. However, this collection will also prove interesting to non-medievalists interested in the history of emotion, the justification of human conflict, and the concept of feud and its applicability to specific historical periods.