Describes and analyses brutality in the later Middle Ages, focusing on a thriving region of Northern France. Explores experiences of, and attitudes towards, vio

The European Middle Ages have long attracted popular interest as an era characterised by violence, whether a reflection of societal brutality and lawlessness or

First full investigation in English into the role played by chivalric ideology, and its violent results, in late medieval Castile.

Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest fo

Studies of ways in which the rapidly evolving society of medieval Europe developed social, legal and practical responses to public and private violence.

This pioneering work explores the theme of women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, bringing together medievalists of different specialties and me

An examination of medieval historican writings through the prism of violence.

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 co

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The hand

The volume The Spectacle of the Body in Late Medieval England represents a study on the human body representation in medieval England by approaching the concept