Conflict in Medieval Europe

Warren C. Brown, California Institute of Technology, and Piotr Gorecki, University of California - Riverside, USA Warren C. Brown, Piotr Gorecki, Stephen D. White, Hans Hummer, Barbara H. Rosenwein, William North, Emily Zack Tabuteau, Geoffrey Koziol, Belle Stoddard Tuten, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Paul R. Hyams, Charles Donahue, Jr., Jesse L. Byock, Fredric L. Cheyette.

• Contents: Preface; What conflict means: the making of medieval conflict studies in the United States, 1970-2000, Warren C. Brown and Piotr Górecki; 10th-century courts at Mâcon and the perils of structuralist history: re-reading Burgundian judicial institutions, Stephen D. White; Reform and lordship in Alsace at the turn of the millennium, Hans Hummer; Visualizing a dispute resolution: Peter of Albano's protected zone, Barbara H. Rosenwein; The fragmentation and redemption of a medieval cathedral: property, conflict, and public piety in 11th-century Arezzo, William North; Punishments in 11th-century Normandy, Emily Zack Tabuteau; Baldwin VII of Flanders and the Toll of Saint-Vaast (1111): judgment as ritual, Geoffrey Koziol; Women and ordeals, Belle Stoddard Tuten; Law and nonmarital sex in the Middle Ages, Henry Ansgar Kelly; Nastiness and wrong, rancor and reconciliation, Paul R. Hyams; The emergence of the crime-tort distinction in England, Charles Donahue, Jr.; Feuding in Viking-age Iceland's Great Village, Jesse L. Byock; Some reflections on violence, reconciliation, and the 'feudal revolution', Fredric L. Cheyette; Where conflict leads: on the present and future of medieval conflict studies in the United States, Warren Brown and Piotr Górecki; Bibliography; Index.

'The papers ... are always stimulating and thought-provoking, and the whole provides a fascinating conspectus of thinking about medieval history in the USA. It is unusual in presenting itself as [sic] in these terms, and the editors are to be congratulated on the way in which they have set out the issues.' English HIstorical Review 'Brown and Górecki show in an exemplary way how to introduce an essay collection on Medieval studies, how to present the broad spectrum of sujbects in the collection, how to point the reader's own research into the right direction and how to create interest in the future developments in this subject area.' Historische Zeitschrift