Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 11001500
This pioneering work explores the theme of women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, bringing together medievalists of different specialties and methodologies to offer readers an updated outline of how different disciplines can contribute to the study of gender-based violence in medieval times.
Building on the contributions of the social sciences, and in particular feminist criminology, the book analyses the rich theme of women and violence in its full spectrum, including both violence committed against women and violence perpetrated by women themselves, in order to show how medieval assumptions postulated a tight connection between the two. Violent crime, verbal offences, war, and peace-making are among the themes approached by the book, which assesses to what extent coexisting elaborations on the relationship between femininity and violence in the Mediterranean were conflicting or collaborating. Geographical regions explored include Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world.
This multidisciplinary book will appeal to scholars and students of history, literature, gender studies, and legal studies.
Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues holds a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford. She is currently a Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellow at the Universit di Milano Statale. She held research positions in the UK, Canada, and Italy. Her work focuses on the influence of Christian spirituality on the development of criminal justice in the late medieval Italian communes.
Lorenzo Caravaggi completed his doctorate at Balliol College, University of Oxford, with a thesis on the dynamics of peacekeeping in late-medieval Italy. He is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at The University of East Anglia, with a project on the ethical and literary underpinnings of criminal law in fourteenth-century Europe.
Giulia M. Paoletti holds an M.St. in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. She was awarded an Ernst Mach Grant to work at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Her work focuses on Byzantine poetry, monastic literature and more broadly on the Palaiologan period.
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Names: Zanetti Domingues, Lidia Luisa, 1990 editor. | Caravaggi,
Lorenzo, editor. | Paoletti, Giulia, editor.
Title: Women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, ca.
11001500 / edited by Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues, Lorenzo Caravaggi,
and Giulia M. Paoletti.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Series:
Studies in medieval history and culture | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Subjects: LCSH: WomenHistoryMiddle Ages, 5001500. | Women
Violence againstMediterranean RegionHistoryTo 1500. |
Violence in womenMediterranean RegionHistoryTo 1500. |
Family violenceMediterranean RegionHistoryTo 1500. | Abused
womenMediterranean RegionHistoryTo 1500.
Classification: LCC HQ1147.M47 W66 2022 (print) | LCC HQ1147.M47
(ebook) | DDC 305.409/02dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021037043
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021037044
ISBN: 978-0-367-56570-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-56576-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-09843-0 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003098430
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Contents
LIDIA L. ZANETTI DOMINGUES, LORENZO CARAVAGGI, AND GIULIA M. PAOLETTI
PART I Women and war
1 Both general and lady: the 1135 defence of Gangra by its Amira
MAXIMILIAN LAU
2 Representations of womens violence in the epic: the female furor in the old French Guillaume dOrange Cycle, the Byzantine Digenis Akritis and the Persian Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
NINA SOLEYMANI MAJD
3 Reflections on womens behaviour in war contexts in communal Italy (twelfththirteenth centuries)
ALBERTO LUONGO
4 lpreuve des guerres seigneuriales. Des rles fminins dans la trame de lHistoire de Corse (quinzime sicle)
LUCIE ARRIGHI
PART II Women and criminal courts
5 Opportunities to charge rape in thirteenth-century Bologna
CAROL LANSING
6 Legal regulation of sex crimes in medieval Serbia and the Mediterranean communes under its rule
NINA KRLJANIN
7 Lascivious crimes and legitimate proofs: women and the juridical transformation of Norman and Staufen Sicily
PHILIPPA BYRNE
PART III Violence and female social roles
8 La parrsia comme expression de la violence fminine Byzance
LISABETH MALAMUT
9 Slavery and violence against women in Renaissance Central Italy
