Vengeance in the Middle Ages : emotion, religion and feud / edited by Susanna A. Throop and Paul R. Hyams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Throop, Susanna A.

Hyams, Paul R.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revenge.

Revenge--Religious aspects.

Europe--History.

Europe.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 232 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]

Contents:

"Vengeance is mine" : saintly retribution in Medieval Ireland / Máire Johnson

The "fyre of Ire kyndild" in the fifteenth-century Scottish marches / Jackson W. Armstrong

Living in fear of revenge : religious minorities and the right to bear arms in fifteenth-century Portugal / François Soyer

Chivalric feud in tenth-century France / Dominique Barthélemy

The way vengeance comes : rancorous deeds and words in the world of Orderic Vitalis / Thomas Roche

Verbal and physical violence in the historie of Aurelio and Isabell / Marina Brownlee

Was there really such a thing as feud in the high Middle Ages? / Paul R. Hyams

Zeal, anger, and vengeance : the emotional rhetoric of crusading / Susanna A. Throop

Afterword : neither unnatural nor wholly negative : the future of medieval vengeance / Paul R. Hyams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

075466421X

9780754664215

OCLC:

344073103

Publisher Number:

99946495115