Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
Mark D. Meyerson, Daniel Thiery, and Oren Falk
PART I: VIOLENCE AND IDENTITY FORMATION
1 Violence and the Making of Wiglaf
John M. Hill
2 Defending Their Masters’ Honour: Slaves as Violent Offenders
in Fifteenth-Century Valencia
Debra Blumenthal
3 The Murder of Pau de Sant Martí: Jews, Conversos, and the Feud
in Fifteenth-Century Valencia
Mark D. Meyerson
4 Violence and the Sacred City: London, Gower, and the Rising of
1381
Eve Salisbury
5 Bystanders and Hearsayers First: Reassessing the Role of the
Audience in Duelling
Oren Falk
6 Scottish National Heroes and the Limits of Violence
Anne Mckim
PART II: VIOLENCE AND THE TESTAMENT OF THE BODY
7 Seeing the Gendering of Violence: Female and Male Martyrs in
the South English Legendary
Beth Crachiolo
8 Violence or Cruelty? An Intercultural Perspective
Daniel Baraz
9 Body as Champion of Church Authority and Sacred Place: The
Murder of Thomas Becket
Dawn Marie Hayes
10 Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale: Interrogating ‘Virtue’ through
Violence
M.C. Bodden
11 Violence, the Queen’s Body, and the Medieval Body Politic
John Carmi Parsons
12 Violence in the Early Robin Hood Poems 268
Richard Firth Green
13 Canon Laws regarding Female Military Commanders up to the
Time of Gratian: Some Texts and Their Historical Contexts
David Hay
Conclusion
Mark D. Meyerson, Daniel Thiery, and Oren Falk
Mark D. Meyerson is an associate professor of History and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Daniel Thiery is an associate professor at Iona College. Oren Falk is an associate professor of History at Cornell University.
‘A worthwhile volume that needs to be reckoned with in discussions
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*Parergon*
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Blood’? is not only the ubiquity of violence in the Middle Ages but
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