Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500

Introduction: Medieval and Modern Gender-Based Violence

Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues, Lorenzo Caravaggi, Giulia M. Paoletti

Part I: Women and War

1. "Both General and Lady": the 1135 Defence of Gangra by its Amira

Maximilian Lau

2. Representations of women's violence in the epic: the female 'furor' in the Old French Guillaume d'Orange Cycle, the Byzantine Digenis Akritis and the Persian Shahnameh by Ferdowsi

Nina Soleymani Majd

3. Reflections on Women's Behaviour in War Contexts in Communal Italy (Twelfth-Thirteenth centuries)

Alberto Luongo

4. A l'epreuve des guerres seigneuriales. Des roles feminins dans la trame de l'Histoire de Corse (quinzieme siecle)

Lucie Arrighi

Part II: Women and Criminal Courts

5. Opportunities to Charge Rape in Thirteenth-Century Bologna

Carol Lansing

6. Legal regulation of sex crimes in medieval Serbia and its Mediterranean communes under its rule

Nina Krsljanin

7. Lascivious crimes and legitimate proofs: women and the juridical transformation of Norman and Staufen Sicily

Philippa Byrne

Part III: Violence and Female Social Roles

8. La parresia comme expression de la violence feminine a Byzance

Elisabeth Malamut

9. Slavery and Violence Against Women in Renaissance Central Italy

Loek Luiten

10. 'With her aid, direction, and fervor': Women and the Politics of Lordship in Fourteenth-Century Tuscany

Joseph Figliulo-Rosswurm

11. Gendering Crime in Byzantium: Abortion, Infanticide and Female Violence

Stephanie Novasio

Conclusion

Annick Peters-Custot