MATTHEW STRICKLAND is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow. Malcolm Vale is emeritus fellow in medieval history at St John's College, Oxford. He has published widely on the political and cultural history of the later Middle Ages.

• The Sublime Body of the Martyr. Violence in Early Romance Saints' Lives - H S KayChivalry and the Civilizing Process - Richard W KaeuperA Law of Arms or a Law of Treason? Conduct in War in Edward I's Campaigns in Scotland, 1296-1307 - Matthew J StricklandSimon de Montfort (1265), The Earl of Manchester (1644), and other stories: Violence and Politics in Thirteenth- and Early-Fourteenth Century EnglandCentury England - J R S PhillipsPolitical and Criminal Violence in Fifteenth-Century England - M L BohnaDoes it matter when the English began to distinguish between crime and tort? - Paul HyamsTrailbaston and Attempts to Control Violence in the Reign of Edward I - Amy E PhelanViolence and the Tournament - Juliet ValeAristocratic Violence: Trial by Battle in the Later Middle Ages - Malcolm ValeDomestic Violence in Classical Canon Law - James A BrundageViolence in the Domestic Milieu of Late Medieval England - Barbara A HanawaltEconomic Depression in England in the Second and Third Quarters of the Fifteenth Century: Effective Resistances of Tenants to Landlords as one of its Consequences, Defiances and Rent StrikesLandlords as one of its Consequences, Defiances - E.B. Fryde

Many [contributions] individually thought-provoking and well worth reading.