Vengeance in the Middle Ages : emotion, religion and feud /

Vengeance in the Middle Ages : emotion, religion and feud / edited by Susanna A. Throop and Paul R. Hyams. - Farnham : Ashgate, c2010. - viii, 232 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Vengeance is mine" : saintly retribution in Medieval Ireland / M©Łire Johnson -- The "fyre of Ire kyndild" in the fifteenth-century Scottish marches / Jackson W. Armstrong -- Living in fear of revenge : religious minorities and the right to bear arms in fifteenth-century Portugal / Fran©ʹois Soyer -- Chivalric feud in tenth-century France / Dominique Barth©♭lemy -- The way vengeance comes : rancorous deeds and words in the world of Orderic Vitalis / Thomas Roche -- Verbal and physical violence in the historie of Aurelio and Isabell / Marina Brownlee -- Was there really such a thing as feud in the high Middle Ages? / Paul R. Hyams -- Zeal, anger, and vengeance : the emotional rhetoric of crusading / Susanna A. Throop -- Afterword : neither unnatural nor wholly negative : the future of medieval vengeance / Paul R. Hyams.

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Revenge.
Revenge--Religious aspects.


Europe--History.

BF637.R48 / T47 2010

940.1