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https://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pieter_Bruegel_d._Ä._066-e1511957095662.jpg570412Interpersonal violence was common in late medieval Marseille, as it was everywhere in Europe. In the fourteenth century, the city was riven by warfare between two great factions involving some of Marseille’s leading families.