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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.
This is the undisputed best introduction to the history of the world-wide pattern of British activity in the nineteenth century, embracing its expansive spirit as well as its formal territorial empire. The dynamics of this extraordinary enterprise are considered broadly: the high-political concerns of strategy and international geopolitics are analyzed, as well as the economic dimension, missionary activity, and racial attitudes, together with a wide range of cultural aspects, including sport and the pursuit of sexual opportunity. Nor is the personal contribution of some of the leading Victorian figures neglected.
The first full English translation of Rigord's Gesta Philippi
Augusti, The Deeds of Philip Augustus makes available to Anglophone
readers the most important narrative account of the reign of King
Philip II of France (r. 1180–1223), a critical source about this
pivotal figure in the development of the medieval French monarchy
and an intriguing window into many aspects of the broader twelfth
century. Rigord wrote his chronicle in Latin, covering the first
two-thirds of Philip II's reign, including such events as Philip's
fateful expulsion of the Jews in 1182, his departure on the Third
Crusade in 1190, his governmental innovations, and his victory over
King John of England. As Philip II transformed French royal power,
Rigord transformed contemporary writing about the nature of that
power. Presented in a lively and readable translation framed by an
introduction that contextualizes the text and accompanied by
annotations, maps, and illustrations, The Deeds of Philip Augustus
makes one of the most important documents of twelfth-century France
available to a wide new readership.
The first full English translation of Rigord's Gesta Philippi
Augusti, The Deeds of Philip Augustus makes available to Anglophone
readers the most important narrative account of the reign of King
Philip II of France (r. 1180-1223), a critical source about this
pivotal figure in the development of the medieval French monarchy
and an intriguing window into many aspects of the broader twelfth
century. Rigord wrote his chronicle in Latin, covering the first
two-thirds of Philip II's reign, including such events as Philip's
fateful expulsion of the Jews in 1182, his departure on the Third
Crusade in 1190, his governmental innovations, and his victory over
King John of England. As Philip II transformed French royal power,
Rigord transformed contemporary writing about the nature of that
power. Presented in a lively and readable translation framed by an
introduction that contextualizes the text and accompanied by
annotations, maps, and illustrations, The Deeds of Philip Augustus
makes one of the most important documents of twelfth-century France
available to a wide new readership.
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.
Duels and bloodfeuds have long been regarded as essentially
Continental phenomena, counter to the staid and orderly British
ways of settling differences. In this surprising work of social and
legal history, Paul R. Hyams reveals a post-Conquest England not
all that different from the realms across the Channel. Drawing on a
wide range of texts and the long history of argument about these
texts, Hyams shatters the myth of English exceptionalism, the
notion that while feud and vengeance prevailed in the lands of the
Franks, England had advanced beyond such anarchic barbarism by the
time of the Conquest and forged a centralized political and legal
system. This book provides support for the notion that feud and
vengeance flourished in England long beyond the Conquest, and that
this fact obliges us to reconsider the genealogies of both common
law and the English monarchy.Moving back and forth between a broad
overview of 300 years of legal history and the details of specific
disputes, Hyams attends to the demands of individuals who believed
that they had been aggrieved and sought remedy. He shows how
individuals perceived particular acts of violence and responded to
them. These reactions, in turn, sparked central efforts to manage
disputes and thereby establish law and order. Respectable
litigation, however, never eclipsed the danger of direct action,
often violent and physical.
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