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Conflict is defined here broadly and inclusively as an element of
social life and social relations. Its study encompasses the law,
not just disputes concerning property, but wider issues of
criminality, coercion and violence, status, sex, sexuality and
gender, as well as the phases and manifestations of conflict and
the behaviors brought to bear on it. It engages, too, with the
nature of the transformation spanning the Carolingian period, and
its implications for the meanings of power, violence, and peace.
Conflict in Medieval Europe represents the 'American school' of the
study of medieval conflict and social order. Framed by two
substantial historiographical and conceptual surveys of the field,
it brings together two generations of scholars: the pioneers, who
continue to expand the research agenda; and younger colleagues, who
represent the best emerging work on this subject. The book
therefore both marks the trajectory of conflict studies in the
United States and presents a set of original, highly individual
contributions across a shifting conceptual range, indicative of a
major transition in the field.
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.
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.
Our understanding of life in the early Middle Ages is dominated by
Christian churches and monasteries. It is their records and
libraries which have survived the centuries, to tell us how the
clerics, monks, and nuns who lived and worked within their walls
experienced the world around them. We thus see the lay inhabitants
of that wider world mostly when they are interacting with the
clergy. However, a few sources let us explore lay life in this
period more broadly. Beyond the Monastery Walls exploits perhaps
the richest of these: manuscript books containing formulas, or
models, for documents that do not otherwise survive. Through these
books, Warren C. Brown explores the concerns and behavior of lay
men and women in this period on their own terms, and casts fresh
light on a part of the medieval world that is usually hidden from
view. In the process, he shows how early medievalists are winning
fresh information from our sources by looking at them in new ways.
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