{"product_id":"vengeance-in-medieval-europe-1","title":"Vengeance in Medieval Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow 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 This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sources collected here illustrate the power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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe introduction traces recent scholarly developments in the study of vengeance and discusses the significance of these concepts for medieval political and social history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Daniel Lord Smail","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53617609081212,"sku":"9781442603509","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442603509.jpg?v=1731031036","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/vengeance-in-medieval-europe-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}