Negotiating Violence

Gabriella Erdélyi is Permanent Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She has published A Cloister on Trial. Religious Culture and Everyday Life in Late Medieval Hungary (Ashgate, 2015) and edited Armed Memory. Agency and Peasant Revolts in Central and Southern Europe (1450–1700) (V&R, 2016).

• AcknowledgementsList of Maps and Illustrations1 IntroductionResearch AgendaThe Uses of Papal Pardon2 Negotiating ApostasyApostates and EvangelicalsCloisters and LearningThe Ambitious Common ManStorytelling StrategiesGaps in the NarrativeConclusion3 The Gates of Upward Social MobilityThe Social Origin of the FriarsChoosing the CloisterLearning in the Cloister SchoolsLearning in the Parish SchoolsThe Protean Literacy of the Lesser ClergyConclusion4 From Savage to Civilized: Village Schools and Student LifeThe Interactions of Students and LocalsThe Dense Network of Parish Schools in the CountrysideThe Presence of Literate and “Civilized” Men in Rural CommunitiesConclusion5 Life Outside the Walls: Clergymen on the RoadThe Parish Church and Cloister in the CommunityMasses of Unbeneficed ClergyThe Unbeneficed as CriminalsParish Incumbents and the UnbeneficedOrdained in RomeConclusion6 The Heyday of Popular Culture: The Shared Time and Space of Laity and ClergyDefending Male HonorShared Spaces of LeisureCarnival Every DayShared PracticesLeisure and Crime in the DarkFestivities and ViolenceShared Concepts of MagicConclusion7 Contested Coexistence: Lay-Clerical Disputes and Their SettlementEnmities and the Language of EmotionsClergymen as the Mediators of the SacredClergymen as Members of Local CommunitiesHonor and Hatred: The Script of Lay-Clerical ConflictsThe Communal Definition of CriminalsConclusion8 Tales of a Peasant RevoltTwo Competing Myths of Just WarRepresentations of Violence: Private and Public PerspectivesGyörgy Dózsa, the Martyrb>9 Shifting Identities in the Christian-Muslim Contact Zone“Apostate” SpousesChristian “Bigamists”Latin and Orthodox Christian IntermarriagesConclusionb>10 ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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