A question of violence, the law and violence; viewing violence - the conceptual context of violence in 15th-century England; five case-studies; community violence - two case-studies; conclusion - violence and social order.
`this is a fascinating study ... this book contains a number of
significant and original findings ... this is a well-researched and
carefully argued book which will undoubtedly change the way we
think of fifteenth-century England.'
The Historian, Autumn 1993, Vol 56
`Maddern's is an important, original and compelling book. It brings
powerful new insights to a subject with which most historians of
late-medieval society probably thought they were familiar.'
Nigel Saul, The Times Literary Supplement
'This well-argued monograph sets the definition of political and
social behavior against the culture of chivalric literature as well
as that of legal categories. an important book that urges a
re-reading of familiar assessments of authority and rank, and makes
the distinction between allegations and a reconstruction of "what
really happened."'
J.T. Rosenthal, SUNY at Stony Brook, Choice, Feb '93
'her investigation of what may be called the ideology of medieval
violence is imaginative and often convincing'
Henry Summerson, Institute of Historical Research, The Journal of
Legal History, Vol. 14, No. 2, Aug '93
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