The final argument : the imprint of violence on society in medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Donald J. Kagay, L.J. Andrew Villalon.

Other author Kagay, Donald J.
Other author Villalon, L. J. Andrew.
Format Book
Publication InfoWoodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 1998.
Descriptionxx, 209 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
Violence--Europe. --History.
Violent crimes--Europe. --History.
Political violence--Europe. --History.
Civilization, Medieval.
Europe--Social life and customs.

Contents pt. 1. Violence and the medieval clergy: Clerics, war and weapons in Anglo-Saxon England / Kent G. Hare. Violence, knightly piety and the Peace of God Movement in Aquitaine / Michael Frassetto. The Friar Tuck syndrome: clerical violence and the barons' war / James R. King -- pt. 2. Medieval families and feuds: Deudo and the roots of feudal violence in late medieval Castile / L.J. Andrew Villalon. The Iberian diffidamentum: from vassalic defiance to the code duello / Donald J. Kagay. Criminal settlement in medieval Castilian towns / Theresa M. Vann -- pt. 3. Public control and private violence in early modern times: The language of violence in the late Italian Renaissance: the example of the Tuscan Romagna / John K. Brackett. Artificial antagonism in pre-modern Iran: the Haydari-Ne'mati urban factions / John R. Perry -- pt. 4. Crime and punishment: Crime and punishment in the fifteenth-century Portuguese world: the transition from internal to imperial exile / Timothy J. Coates. Non potest appellum facere: criminal charges women could not, but did, bring in thirteenth-century English royal courts of justice / Patricia R. Orr. War, women and crime in the northern English border lands in the later Middle Ages / Cynthia J. Neville -- pt. 5. A medieval mystery: The wreck of the White Ship: a mass murder revealed? / Victoria Chandler.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [195]-206).
LCCN 97042176
ISBN0851157106 (hc : alk. paper)