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Format: 1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-4426-2493-0 , 1-4426-2881-2 , 1-281-99444-8 , 9786611994440 , 1-4426-7033-9

Content: Medievalists from several countries offer accounts of Medieval violence at is related to identity formation and the testament of the body, examining such topics as the murder of Pau de Sant Marti in 15th-century Valencia; London, Gower, and the 1381 rising; an intercultural perspective; and violence in the early Robin Hood poems. Most of the 13 essays are from a 1998 conference in Toronto. They are not indexed. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Violence and the making of Wiglaf / John M. Hill -- Defending their masters' honour: slaves as violent offenders in fifteenth-century Valencia / Debra Blumenthal -- The murder of Pau de Sant Martí: Jews, conversos, and the feud in fifteenth-century Valencia / Mark D. Meyerson -- Violence and the sacred city: London, Gower, and the Rising of 1381 / Eve Salisbury -- Bystanders and hearsayers first: reassessing the role of the audience in duelling / Oren Falk -- Scottish national heroes and the limits of violence / Anne McKim -- Seeing the gendering of violence: female and male martyrs in the South English legendary / Beth Crachiolo -- Violence or cruelty? An intercultural perspective / Daniel Baraz -- Body as champion of church authority and the sacred place: the murder of Thomas Becket / Dawn Marie Hayes -- Chaucer's Clerk's tale: interrogating 'virtue' through violence / M.C. Bodden -- Violence, the Queen's body, and the medieval body politic / John Carmi Parsons -- Violence in the early Robin Hood poems / Richard Firth Green -- Canon laws regarding female military commanders up to the time of Gratian: some texts and their historical contexts / David Hay. , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8020-8464-8

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8020-8774-4

Language: English

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DOI: 10.3138/9781442670334

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (328 p)

ISBN: 9781442628816

Content: Exploring the issue from both historical and literary perspectives, the contributors examine violence in a broad variety of genres, places, and times, such as the Late Antique lives of the martyrs, Islamic historiography, Anglo-Saxon poetry and Norse sagas, and more

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9781442670334

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781442628816

Additional Edition: Print version Meyerson, Mark D 'A Great Effusion of Blood'? : Interpreting Medieval Violence Toronto : University of Toronto Press,c2014 ISBN 9781442628816

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

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ISBN: 9781442670334

Content: 'A great effusion of blood' was a phrase used frequently throughout medieval Europe as shorthand to describe the effects of immoderate interpersonal violence. Yet the ambiguity of this phrase poses numerous problems for modern readers and scholars in interpreting violence in medieval society and culture and its effect on medieval people. Understanding medieval violence is made even more complex by the multiplicity of views that need to be reconciled: those of modern scholars regarding the psychology and comportment of medieval people, those of the medieval persons themselves as perpetrators or victims of violence, those of medieval writers describing the acts, and those of medieval readers, the audience for these accounts. Using historical records, artistic representation, and theoretical articulation, the contributors to this volume attempt to bring together these views and fashion a comprehensive understanding of medieval conceptions of violence.Exploring the issue from both historical and literary perspectives, the contributors examine violence in a broad variety of genres, places, and times, such as the Late Antique lives of the martyrs, Islamic historiography, Anglo-Saxon poetry and Norse sagas, canon law and chronicles, English and Scottish ballads, the criminal records of fifteenth-century Spain, and more. Taken together, the essays offer fresh ways of analysing medieval violence and its representations, and bring us closer to an understanding of how it was experienced by the people who lived it.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Contributors -- , Abbreviations -- , Introduction -- , PART I: VIOLENCE AND IDENTITY FORMATION -- , 1. Violence and the Making of Wiglaf -- , 2. Defending Their Masters' Honour: Slaves as Violent Offenders in Fifteenth-Century Valencia -- , 3. The Murder of Pau de Sant Marti: Jews, Converses, and the Feud in Fifteenth-Century Valencia -- , 4. Violence and the Sacred City: London, Gower, and the Rising of 1381 -- , 5. Bystanders and Hearsayers First: Reassessing the Role of the Audience in Duelling -- , 6. Scottish National Heroes and the Limits of Violence -- , PART II: VIOLENCE AND THE TESTAMENT OF THE BODY -- , 7. Seeing the Gendering of Violence: Female and Male Martyrs in the South English Legendary -- , 8. Violence or Cruelty? An Intercultural Perspective -- , 9. Body as Champion of Church Authority and Sacred Place: The Murder of Thomas Becket -- , 10. Chaucer's Clerk's Tale: Interrogating 'Virtue' through Violence -- , 11. Violence, the Queen's Body, and the Medieval Body Politic -- , 12. Violence in the Early Robin Hood Poems -- , 13. Canon Laws regarding Female Military Commanders up to the Time of Gratian: Some Texts and Their Historical Contexts -- , Conclusion

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442670334

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442670334

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442670334