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Series editor: Julia Smith, University of Glasgow
Alfred the Great
Richard Abels
The Western Mediterranean Kingdom
David Abulafia
The Fourth Crusade
Michael Angold
The Cathars
Malcolm Barber
The Godwins
Frank Barlow
Philip Augustus
Jim Bradbury
Medieval Canon Law
J.A. Brundage
Crime in Medieval Europe
Trevor Dean
Charles I of Anjou
Jean Dunbabin
The Age of Charles Martel
Paul Fouracre
Margery Kempe
A.E. Goodman
Abbot Suger of St-Denis
Lindy Grant
Edward the Black Prince
David Green
Bastard Feudalism
M. Hicks
The Crusader States and their Neighbours
P.M. Holt
The Formation of English Common Law
John Hudson
The Mongols and the West
Peter Jackson
Europes Barbarians, AD 200600
Edward James
The Age of Robert Guiscard
Graham Loud
The English Church, 9401154
H.R. Loyn
Justinian
J. Moorhead
Ambrose
John Moorhead
The Devils World
Andrew P. Roach
The Reign of Richard Lionheart
Ralph Turner/Richard Heiser
The Welsh Princes
Roger Turvey
English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages
J. Ward
W ARREN C. B ROWN
First published 2011 by Pearson Education Limited
Published 2014 by Routledge
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ISBN 13: 978-1-4058-1164-4 (pbk)
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Brown, Warren C.
Violence in medieval Europe / Warren C. Brown.
p. cm. (The medieval world)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4058-1164-4 (pbk.)
1. ViolenceEuropeHistoryTo 1500. 2. Violent crimesEuropeHistory
To 1500. 3. Civilization, Medieval. 4. EuropeHistory476-1492. I. Title.
HN380.Z9V525 2010
303.60940902dc22
2010013483
Typeset in 10.5/13pt Galliard by 35
Violence troubles us. It raises acute moral issues. It may invoke potent religious sanctions. It poses challenges to ideas about the proper boundaries between the public and private, between the individual and the wider community and thus may call into question the nature of the state. And the control of all forms of violence is deeply embedded in common notions of human progress towards a better society. But is it correct simply to dismiss the Middle Ages as violent and therefore somehow backward? We are all in Warren Browns debt for his refutation of this popular stereotype in this splendid new addition to Longmans Medieval World. In this book, he argues forcefully that to dismiss the Middle Ages as somehow more violent than the modern western world is fundamentally to misunderstand that era as well as our own. Instead, he explores a medieval world of differences: different forms of violence, justifications for it, and arguments about it. Above all, he presents the Middle Ages as a world of competing norms of behaviour that cannot be reduced to a simple, linear story. The implications for the ways in which we understand the contemporary world around us are immense.
In this lucid and exceptionally wide-ranging study Brown covers the whole span of the Middle Ages from Merovingian Gaul to the Hundred Years War. In so doing, he helps us to rethink conventional wisdom about the development of royal power and authority, the role of Christianity in social action, the rise of justice, and even the nature of the self. He is exceptionally well-qualified to guide his readers through this sensitive and fascinating material. An expert on conflict and disputing in the Middle Ages, he brings historical, anthropological and sociological insights to bear on the question of how people in the Middle Ages conceptualized, justified, and deployed violence, in which circumstances, and to what purposes. By refusing to let modern preconceptions cloud his judgement, he makes sense of how and why people acted and re-acted as they did. By situating violence within wider competitions for power and legitimacy, he shows how the norms which regulated it shifted over time and thus enables his readers to appreciate the interplay between the normative and the subjective experience of violence.
I welcome this addition to Longmans Medieval World for its breadth of vision, deep humanity and engagement with pressing concerns.
Julia M.H. Smith
This book looks in two directions. On the one hand, it makes a set of arguments about violence in medieval Europe, arguments that concern in particular the ways that medieval Europeans understood violence and how their attitudes towards violence developed over time. It draws, therefore, on the primary sources in Latin, and on the secondary works in German, French, and Italian as well as English that are necessary to support the arguments and to enable my colleagues in the field and their graduate students to properly evaluate them.
On the other hand, and in keeping with the goals of the Medieval World series, the book is designed to serve as a gateway to one of the most vibrant areas of current research in medieval studies, that is, into conflict, power, and political order. In this regard, it is aimed at undergraduate students, scholars in other fields, and those outside academia who are interested in these subjects or in learning about what goes on inside the ivory tower. The book is based, therefore, on primary sources that are readily available in English translation so that these readers too, in the classroom or on their own, can explore what the sources say and decide for themselves what to make of my arguments. Doing so has been made easier not only by the great number of medieval source translations that have been published in recent years, but also by those that have been posted on the World Wide Web. Such online source translations have been matched, as we will see in one important case, by outstanding digitized facsimiles of medieval manuscripts. One can only express profound gratitude for the professionalism of those who put long and intense labor into these facsimiles and then made them freely available to everyone on the Web.
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