Vengeance in Medieval Europe: A Reader

✍ Scribed by Daniel Lord Smail (editor); Kelly Lyn Gibson (editor)

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 496
• Series: Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures; 13
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART I. PROLOGUE : ANCIENT SOURCES FOR MEDIEVAL CONCEPTS OF VENGEANCE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: THE OLD TESTAMENT
CHAPTER TWO: THE NEW TESTAMENT
CHAPTER THREE: ROMAN LAWS
PART II. THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (400 –1000)
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER FOUR: CODES , CAPITULARIES , AND PENITENTIA
CHAPTER FIVE : SERMONS , EXEGESIS , AND LETTERS
CHAPTER SIX: SAINTS ’ LIVES , CHRONICLES , AND EPICS
CHAPTER SEVEN : FORMULARIES , CHARTERS, AND JUDGMENTS
PART III. THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES (1000 –1250)
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE EFFORT TO REGULATE VIOLENCE AND EMOTION
CHAPTER NINE : SERMONS AND LEARNED COMMENTARY ON ANGER AND VENGEANCE
CHAPTER TEN : SAINTS ’ LIVES , CHRONICLES , AND EPICS
CHAPTER ELEVEN : PEACE CHARTERS AND OATHS
PART IV. THE LATER MIDDLE AGES (1250 –1500)
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER TWELVE : MUNICIPAL , TERRITORIAL , AND ROYAL LAWS CONCERNING VENGEANCE AND MURDER
CHAPTER THIRTEEN : ECCLESIASTICAL AND SECULAR COMMENTARY ON PEA CE AND THE RESTRAINT OF EMOTIONS
CHAPTER FOURTEEN : SAINTS ’ LIVES , CHRONICLES , AND EPICS
CHAPTER FIFTEEN : COURT CASES AND NOTARIAL PEACE ACTS
Index of Topics
Sources