Vengeance in Medieval Europe : : A Reader / / ed. by Kelly Lyn Gibson, Daniel Lord Smail.
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 This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages.The sources collected here illustrate the power...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (496 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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