The Final Argument
The Imprint of Violence on Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Published on 4. June 1998
Book
Hardback
223 pages
978-0-85115-710-8 (ISBN)
Description
Civilization consists of the attempt to reduce violence to the ultimo ratio, the final argument, the great Spanish political philosopher JoseOrtega y Gasset once declared. This volume explores a variety of ways and purposes for which violence was employed in medieval and early modern societies, ranging from England to Spain, from Portugal to Iran. The contributions deal with the place of medieval clergy in war and peace; the institutionalisation of clan violence in medieval Iberia which eventally gave rise to the law of modern duelling, the code duello; and the emergence of norms of punishment for violence which pointed the way to the modern criminal law and penology. There is also a piece of historical detective work with a "definitive" solution for one of the crucial murder mysteries of the early Middle Ages - the wreck of the White Ship in 1120.
Contributors: KENT G. HARE, MICHAEL FRASSETTO, JAMES R. KING, L.J. ANDREW VILLALON, DONALD J. KAGAY, THERESA M. VANN, JOHN K. BRACKETT, JOHN R. PERRY, TIMOTHY J. COATES, PATRICIA R. ORR, CYNTHIA J. NEVILLE, VICTORIA CHANDLER
Contributors: KENT G. HARE, MICHAEL FRASSETTO, JAMES R. KING, L.J. ANDREW VILLALON, DONALD J. KAGAY, THERESA M. VANN, JOHN K. BRACKETT, JOHN R. PERRY, TIMOTHY J. COATES, PATRICIA R. ORR, CYNTHIA J. NEVILLE, VICTORIA CHANDLER
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Contain[s] intelligent, well-written essays that will repay the attention of anyone interested in the phenomenon of violence in the middle ages. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Woodbridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
3 b/w. 2 line.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85115-710-8 (9780851157108)
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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
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 Kagay
Criminal Settlement in Medieval Castilian Towns - Theresa M Vann
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
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 JusticeJustice - Patricia R. Orr
War, Women and Crime in the Northern English Border Lands in the Later Middle Ages - Cynthia J Neville
The Wreck of the White Ship. A Mass Murder Revealed? - Victoria Chandler
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
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 Kagay
Criminal Settlement in Medieval Castilian Towns - Theresa M Vann
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
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 JusticeJustice - Patricia R. Orr
War, Women and Crime in the Northern English Border Lands in the Later Middle Ages - Cynthia J Neville
The Wreck of the White Ship. A Mass Murder Revealed? - Victoria Chandler