This volume aims to balance the traditional literature available on
medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance
and culture in the Middle Ages. A diverse assortment of
interdisciplinary essays from scholars in Europe and North America
contest or enlarge traditional approaches to and interpretations of
vengeance in the Middle Ages. Each essay attempts to clarify the
multifaceted experience of vengeance within a specific medieval
context"a particular region, a particular text, a particular social
movement. By asking what relationship a distinct factor like
authorship or religion has with the concept of vengeance, each
author points towards the breadth of meanings of medieval
vengeance, and to the heart of the deeper and broader questions
that spur scholarly interest in the subject. Geographically, the
essays in the volume highlight Western Europe (particularly the
Anglo-Norman world), Scotland, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal.
Thematically, the essays are concerned with heroic cultures of
vengeance, vengeance as a legal and political tool, Christian
justification and expression of vengeance, literature and the
distinction between discourse and reality, and the emotions of
vengeance. Methodologically, these interdisciplinary studies
incorporate tools borrowed from anthropology, the study of emotion,
and modern social and literary theories. This volume is aimed at
professional scholars and graduate students within the broad field
of medieval studies, including the subfields of history,
literature, and religious studies, and is intended to inspire
further research on medieval vengeance. However, this collection
will also prove interesting to non-medievalists interested in the
history of emotion, the justification of human conflict, and the
concept of feud and its applicability to specific historical
periods.
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