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Medieval Violence - Physical Brutality in Northern France, 1270-1330 (Hardcover)
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Medieval Violence - Physical Brutality in Northern France, 1270-1330 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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Medieval Violence provides a detailed analysis of the practice of
medieval brutality, focusing on a thriving region of northern
France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. It
examines how violence was conceptualised in this period, and uses
this framework to investigate street violence, tavern brawls, urban
rebellions, student misbehaviour, and domestic violence. The
interactions between these various forms of violence are examined
in order to demonstrate the complex and communicative nature of
medieval brutality. What is often dismissed as dysfunctional
behaviour is shown to have been highly strategic and socially
integral. Violence was a performance, dependent upon the spaces in
which it took place. Indeed, brutality was contingent upon social
and cultural structures. At the same time, the common stereotype of
the thoughtlessly brutal Middle Ages is challenged, as attitudes
towards violence are revealed to have been complex, troubled, and
ambivalent. Whether violence could function effectively as a form
of communication which could order and harmonise society, or
whether it inevitably degenerated into chaotic disorder where
meaning was multivalent and incomprehensible, remained a matter of
ongoing debate in a variety of contexts. Using a variety of source
material, including legal records, popular literature, and sermons,
Hannah Skoda explores experiences of, and attitudes towards,
violence, and highlights profound contemporary ambiguity concerning
its nature and legitimacy.
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