{"product_id":"vengeance-in-medieval-europe-a-reader-9781442601260","title":"Vengeance in Medieval Europe: A Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Daniel Lord Smail | Kelly Lyn Gibson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Medieval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did medieval society deal with private justice, with grudges, and with violent emotions? This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sources collected here illustrate the power and reach of the language of vengeance in medieval European society. They span the early, high, and later middle ages, and capture a range of perspectives including legal sources, learned commentaries, narratives, and documents of practice. Though social elites necessarily figure prominently in all medieval sources, sources concerning relatively low-status individuals and sources pertaining to women are included. The sources range from saints' lives that illustrate the idea of vengeance to later medieval court records concerning vengeful practices. A secondary goal of the collection is to illustrate the prominence of mechanisms for peacemaking in medieval European society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe introduction traces recent scholarly developments in the study of vengeance and discusses the significance of these concepts for medieval political and social history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47584564641943,"sku":"9781442601260","price":5276.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781442601260.webp?v=1774956994","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/vengeance-in-medieval-europe-a-reader-9781442601260","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}