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Violence in Medieval Europe

by Warren C. Brown

Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Warren Brown examines the norms governing violence within medieval societies from the sixth to the fourteenth century, over an area covering the Romance and the Germanic speaking regions of the continent as well as England. He looks at how private individuals exercised violence in defence of their rights or in vengeance for wrongs within a set of clearly understood rules, and how over the course of this period, kings began to claim the exclusive right to regulate the violence of their subjects as part of their duty to uphold God's order on earth. 328p maps (Longman 2011)

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