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Violence in Medieval Europe (Paperback)
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Violence in Medieval Europe (Paperback)
Series: The Medieval World
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The European Middle Ages have long attracted popular interest as an
era characterised by violence, whether a reflection of societal
brutality and lawlessness or part of a romantic vision of chivalry.
Violence in Medieval Europe engages with current scholarly debate
about the degree to which medieval European society was in fact
shaped by such forces. Drawing on a wide variety of primary
sources, Warren Brown examines the norms governing violence within
medieval societies from the sixth to the fourteenth century, over
an area covering the Romance and the Germanic-speaking regions of
the continent as well as England. Scholars have often told the
story of violence and power in the Middle Ages as one in which
'private' violence threatened and sometimes destroyed 'public'
order. Yet academics are now asking to what degree violence that we
might call private, in contrast to the violence wielded by a
central authority, might have been an effective social tool. Here,
Brown looks at how private individuals exercised violence in
defence of their rights or in vengeance for wrongs within a set of
clearly understood social rules, and how over the course of this
period, kings began to claim the exclusive right to regulate the
violence of their subjects as part of their duty to uphold God's
order on earth. Violence in Medieval Europe provides both an
original take on the subject and an illuminating synthesis of
recent and classic scholarship. It will be invaluable to students
and scholars of history, medieval studies and related areas, for
the light it casts not just on violence, but on the evolution of
the medieval political order.
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