Del i serien Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures

Vengeance in Medieval Europe

A Reader

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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How did medieval society deal with private justice, with grudges, and with violent emotions? This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages.The sources collected here illustrate the power and reach of the language of vengeance in medieval European society. They span the early, high, and later middle ages, and capture a range of perspectives including legal sources, learned commentaries, narratives, and documents of practice. Though social elites necessarily figure prominently in all medieval sources, sources concerning relatively low-status individuals and sources pertaining to women are included. The sources range from saints' lives that illustrate the idea of vengeance to later medieval court records concerning vengeful practices. A secondary goal of the collection is to illustrate the prominence of mechanisms for peacemaking in medieval European society.The introduction traces recent scholarly developments in the study of vengeance and discusses the significance of these concepts for medieval political and social history.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt780 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieReadings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
Antal sidor496
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781442601260

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Daniel Lord Smail is Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the co-editor with Thelma Fenster of Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe (Cornell University Press, 2003), The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423 (Cornell University Press, 2003), and Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille (Cornell University Press, 1999).Kelly Gibson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Harvard University.

Introduction Part I. Prologue: Sources for the Medieval Language of Vengeance Chapter One: The Old Testament 1. The Pollution of Kin-Slaying2. The Law of the Talion3. Vengeance and Emotion4. The Principle of Sanctuary5. The Levite's Concubine6. Humiliation and the Lord's Vengeance7. Restraining the Vengeful Emotions8. The Vengeance of the MaccabeesChapter Two: The New Testament 9. Peacemaking and the Ties of Kinship10. Humility as Vengeance?Chapter Three: Roman Laws 11. Criminal Justice and Vengeance in the Theodosian Code and Sirmondian Constitutions12. Criminal Justice and Vengeance in Justinian's DigestPart II. The Early Middle Ages (500-1000)Chapter Four: Codes, Capitularies, and Penitentials 13. The Laws of the Salian Franks14. The Lombard Laws15. Carolingian Capitularies16. Early Medieval English Law17. Emotion and SinChapter Five: Sermons, Exegesis, and Letters 18. Augustine on the Legitimacy of Fighting Back19. Augustine on the Need to Await God's Vengeance20. Jerome on Kindness and Cruelty21. Law and the "Accursed Custom" of Vengeance in Theoderic's Italy22. Isidore of Seville on the Law of the Talion23. Pope Honorius Speaks of Justice as Vengeance24. Smaragdus of St. Mihiel on Restraining Royal Anger25. Hrabanus Maurus's Homily on Avoiding Anger and Homicide26. Einhard on the Fear of Family Vengeance27. Charles the Bald to Pope Nicholas on Vengeance without Violence28. Vengeance for the "Hard Man"Chapter Six: Saints' Lives, Chronicles, and Epics 29. Jordanes on Vengeance and the Vandal Wars of Conquest30. Gregory of Tours on Feuding and Vengeance31. Gregory of Tours on God's Vengeance32. Vengeance As the Devil's Work in the Life of Saint Sadalberga33. Saint Amandus Rescues a Man from Judicial Vengeance34. Saint Willibrord Forgoes Vengeance and Anger35. History of the Lombards by Paul the Deacon36. Einhard on the Peace Inspired by the Relics of Saints Marcellinus and Peter 37. Saint Gerald of Aurillac Seeks Peace with His Enemies38. Liutprand of Cremona's Tit-For-Tat39. Heroic VengeanceChapter Seven: Formularies, Charters, and Judgments 40. Security for Peace after a Murder41. An Orderly Merovingian Judgment42. Lombard Notice of Judgment at PaviaPart III. The High Middle Ages (1000-1250)Chapter Eight: The Effort to Regulate Violence and Emotion 43. The Peace of God in Charroux44. Penance for Homicide in the Decretum of Burchard of Worms45. The Laws of the Family of St. Peter46. The Penitential of Burchard of Worms47. Truce of God in Arles48. A Comital Peace Assembly of Barcelona49. The Truce of God in Cologne50. Peace of the Land in Mainz51. The Laws of Henry I of England52. The Usatges of Barcelona53. Rules for Trial by Combat in Brescia54. The Penitential of Alain of Lille55. The Penitential of Robert of Flamborough56. General Constitution Concerning Judgments and Keeping the PeaceChapter Nine: Sermons and Learned Commentary on Anger and Vengeance 57. Aelfric's Sermon on Anger and Peace58. Wulfstan's "Sermon of the Wolf" on the Evils of His Day59. Peter Damian on Restraining Anger60. A Letter by Peter Damian on the Vengeance of Spiritual Leaders61. William of Malmesbury on the Consequences of Resisting Peace62. Pope Urban II Urges Vengeance on the Enemies of Christendom in Robert the Monk's History of Jerusalem63. An Account of the Speech of Pope Urban II by Fulcher of Chartres64. A Sermon by Saint Francis on Hatred and Peace65. The Wolf of Gubbio66. Albertanus of Brescia on the Cost of Pursing Private War67. Thomas Aquinas on Homicide, Vengeance, and AngerChapter Ten: Saints' Lives, Chronicles, and Epics 68. Rodulphus Glaber on the Truce of God69. How the Emperor Conrad Pacified His Realm, According to Wipo70. Adam of Bremen on the Attacks of Bishop Adalbert's Enemies71. The Cattle-Raid of Cooley72. Feud between Bishop Gaudry and Baron Gérard in the Autobiography of Guibert of Nogent73. The Murder of Charles the Good by Galbert of Bruges74. Peter Abelard's "Story of My Adversities"75. The Deeds of Louis the Fat by Suger of St. Denis76. The Vengeance of Kings in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain77. The Bloodfeud of Meingold and Albric78. Hariulf on the Sweet Words of Arnulf of Soissons79. Chronicle of the Slavs by Helmold of Bosau80. Emotions among the Military Aristocracy in Raoul of Cambrai81. The Hatred of Kriemhild and Brunhild in The Nibelungenlied82. Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach83. Harald's Norway and the Flight to Iceland in the Laxdaela Saga84. The Story of a Feud in Njal's SagaChapter Eleven: Peace Charters and Oaths 85. Peace Oath Proposed by Bishop Warin of Beauvais to King Robert the Pious 86. Henry II Settles a Feud on Monastic Land87. Attempted Settlement by Combat88. Grant to the Norman Bishops of Fines Due from Breaches of the Truce of God 89. A Catalan Peace Settlement90. A Forged Immunity of King Dagobert III91. A Peace Treaty from AvignonPart IV. The Later Middle Ages (1250-1500)Chapter Twelve: Municipal, Territorial, and Royal Laws Concerning Vengeance and Murder 92. Homicide in the Laws and Customs of England93. From the Sachsenspiegel94. Guarantees of Peace in the Customs of Touraine and Anjou95. The Law of Homicide in the Fuero Real96. Procedures for Private War in the Customs of Beauvaisis97. The Statute of Homicide of Marseille, France98. From the Statutes of Acqui, Italy99. From the Statutes of Apricale, Italy100. From the Statutes of Saone, Italy101. From the Statutes of Cuneo, Italy102. From the Statutes of Celle, Italy103. The Perpetual Peace of the Land Proclaimed by Maximilian IChapter Thirteen: Ecclesiastical and Secular Commentary on Peace and the Restraint of Emotions 104. The Nature of Wrath According to a Preacher's Manual105. A Sermon on Peace by Vincent Ferrer106. Laudable Anger in Leonardo Bruni's Handbook of Moral Philosophy107. Sermon on the Importance of Peace by Bernardino of SienaChapter Fourteen: Saints' Lives, Chronicles, and Epics 108. A vision of peacemaking in the Miracles of Saint Rose of Viterbo109. Ambrose Sansedonius's Preaching of Peace Arouses Enmity110. The Vengeful Miracles of Saint Bridget of Sweden111. Saint Catherine of Siena as Peacemaker112. Vengeance and Peace in the Life of Cola di Rienzo113. Dino Compagni on the Florentine Factions114. Trial by Combat in Froissart's Chronicles115. The Vengeance of Our Lord116. A Miracle of the Blessed Virgin MaryChapter Fifteen: Court Cases and Notarial Peace Acts 117. The Peace Registers of the City of Tournai118. Tura Ranerii, of Florence, Creates a Procurator119. Cases of Homicide in the Calendar of Coroner's Rolls, London120. Notarized Peace Acts and Related Acts from Marseille121. A Lawsuit by Nicolau Guilhem, a Cutler of Marseille122. A Lawsuit against Lois Orlet of Marseille123. A Lawsuit by Anhellon Faber, a Butcher of Marseille124. An Inquest into the Murder of Bernart Berengier in Marseille125. The Marseille City Council Makes a Ruling about Broken Sanctuary126. Ignoring Due Process during a Feud in the Paston Letters