Medieval Europe was a rapidly developing society with a problem of violent disorder. Professor Kaeuper's original and authoritative study reveals that chivalry

This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward wo

The European Middle Ages have long attracted popular interest as an era characterised by violence, whether a reflection of societal brutality and lawlessness or

Describes and analyses brutality in the later Middle Ages, focusing on a thriving region of Northern France. Explores experiences of, and attitudes towards, vio

The volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early modern period, involving European and Japanese sc