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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- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 303.6/094/0902
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- 22
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781442670334 0802087744
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- HN380.V5
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- G74t 2004eb
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- 1 electronic text (vi, 319 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00600967 (OCoLC)752536165 (CaOOCEL)418611
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Contributors 8
- Abbreviations 9
- Introduction 12
- PART I: VIOLENCE AND IDENTITY FORMATION 26
- 1 Violence and the Making of Wiglaf 28
- 2 Defending Their Masters' Honour: Slaves as Violent Offenders in Fifteenth-Century Valencia 43
- 3 The Murder of Pau de Sant Martí: Jews, Converses, and the Feud in Fifteenth-Century Valencia 66
- 4 Violence and the Sacred City: London, Gower, and the Rising of 1381 88
- 5 Bystanders and Hearsayers First: Reassessing the Role of the Audience in Duelling 107
- 6 Scottish National Heroes and the Limits of Violence 140
- PART II: VIOLENCE AND THE TESTAMENT OF THE BODY 154
- 7 Seeing the Gendering of Violence: Female and Male Martyrs in the South English Legendary 156
- 8 Violence or Cruelty? An Intercultural Perspective 173
- 9 Body as Champion of Church Authority and Sacred Place: The Murder of Thomas Becket 199
- 10 Chaucer's Clerk's Tale: Interrogating 'Virtue' through Violence 225
- 11 Violence, the Queen's Body, and the Medieval Body Politic 250
- 12 Violence in the Early Robin Hood Poems 277
- 13 Canon Laws regarding Female Military Commanders up to the Time of Gratian: Some Texts and Their Historical Contexts 296
- Conclusion 324
