The Neighbour and the Jew in Medieval England
Should the relationship between Jews and Christians in Medieval England just be characterized by violence and animosity? The answer lies in looking more…
Between Religion and Violence in Medieval Sicily
Between Religion and Violence in Medieval Sicily By Charles Dalli Historicizing Religion: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Concerns, edited by Bojan Borstner et al.…
Violence Against Women in Medieval Martyr Legends
Violence Against Women in Medieval Martyr Legends By María Beatriz Hernández Pérez Paper given at the 8th Global Conference: Violence and the Contexts…
Feuding in Viking-Age Iceland’s Great Village
Feuding in Viking-Age Iceland’s Great Village By Jesse L. Byock Conflict in Medieval Europe: Changing Perspectives on Society and Culture, edited by Warren C.…
Religious and Intercommunal Violence in Alexandria in the 4th and 5th centuries CE
Religious and Intercommunal Violence in Alexandria in the 4th and 5th centuries CE By Lauren Kaplow Hirundo, the McGill Journal of Classical Studies,…
The politics of violence and trade: Denia and Pisa in the eleventh century
The politics of violence and trade: Denia and Pisa in the eleventh century By Travis Bruce Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 32 (2006)…
The Spectacle of the Scaffolding: Rape and the Violent Foundations of Medieval Theatre Studies
The Spectacle of the Scaffolding: Rape and the Violent Foundations of Medieval Theatre Studies By Jody Enders Theatre Journal, Vol.56 (2004) Introduction: Mrs.…
Portrayals of women in violent situations in texts of the High Middle Ages
Portrayals of women in violent situations in texts of the High Middle Ages By Nina K. Verbanaz M.A. Thesis, University of Missouri–Columbia, 2008…
Religion, Violence and the Historian
In the eleventh and twelfth centuries western Europe emerged from violence in many forms, especially ‘barbarian’ invasion and ‘private’ warfare, or ‘feudal anarchy’
The Problem of Revenge in Medieval Literature: Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, and Ljósvetninga Saga
The Problem of Revenge in Medieval Literature: Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, and Ljósvetninga Saga By Ann Park Lanpher PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto,…
A Case of Indifference? Child Murder in Later Medieval England
Infanticide was a felony in the Middle Ages and neither jurors nor royal officials treated child murder with indifference. Nevertheless, it is clear that both gender and marital status guided the courts in their decisions throughout the legal process in terms of indicting, prosecuting, and sentencing defendants in cases of child murder.
Warrior Geopolitics: Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and the Kingdom of Heaven
Ridley Scott’s three movies, “Gladiator”, “Black Hawk Down” and most recently “The Kingdom of Heaven” explore the morality and identity of warriors. They do so in exotic landscapes and settings that emphasize the confrontation with danger as external and frequently unknowable and political violence as something that has complicated geographies.
Domestic violence in late-medieval Bologna
The aim of this paper is to suggest that married life in Renaissance Italy was much more violent than the current historiography allows.
The military orders and the conversion of Muslims in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Although the relevance to conversion of charters which allude to the propagationor expansion of Christianity may be questioned, a very few twelfth- and early thirteenth-century sources do explicitly seek to link military orders with the convertingof Muslims.
The Middle Ages as Fantasy
Discusses the famous writers J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and the influence of medievalism on their storytelling.