Violence and society in the early medieval West / edited by Guy Halsall.

Other author Halsall, Guy.
Format Book
Publication InfoRochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press, 1998.
Description230 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Violence--Europe. --History.
Social conflict--Europe. --History.
Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Contents Violence and society in the early medieval west: an introductory survey / Guy Halsall -- Legitimate and illegitimate violence in Visigothic law / Luis A. García Moreno -- Attitudes towards violence in seventh- and eighth-century Francia / Paul Fouracre -- Urban violence in early medieval Italy: the cases of Rome and Ravenna / T.S. Brown --Violence in the Carolingian world and the ritualization of ninth-century warfare / Janet L. Nelson -- Regicide in early medieval Ireland / N.B. Aitchison -- Violence in eleventh-century Normandy: feud, warfare and politics / Matthew Bennett -- Violence and late Viking age Scandinavian social order / Guy A.E. Morris -- Violence and the creation of socio-political order in post-conquest Yorkshire / S.J. Speight -- 'These are things that men do, not women': the social regulation of female violence in Langobard Italy / Ross Balzaretti -- Rape in Anglo-Saxon England / Julie Coleman -- Selective female infanticide as partial explanation for the dearth of women in Viking age Scandinavia / Nancy L. Wicker.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97020526
ISBN0851157130 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HN380.Z9 V579 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold