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'A Great Effusion of Blood'? : Interpreting Medieval Violence.
Exploring the issue from both historical and literary perspectives, the contributors examine violence in a broad variety of genres, places, and times, such as the Late Antique lives of the martyrs, Islamic historiography, Anglo-Saxon poetry and Norse sagas, and more.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: VIOLENCE AND IDENTITY FORMATION; 1 Violence and the Making of Wiglaf; 2 Defending Their Masters' Honour: Slaves as Violent Offenders in Fifteenth-Century Valencia; 3 The Murder of Pau de Sant Martí: Jews, Converses, and the Feud in Fifteenth-Century Valencia; 4 Violence and the Sacred City: London, Gower, and the Rising of 1381; 5 Bystanders and Hearsayers First: Reassessing the Role of the Audience in Duelling; 6 Scottish National Heroes and the Limits of Violence; PART II: VIOLENCE AND THE TESTAMENT OF THE BODY.
- 7 Seeing the Gendering of Violence: Female and Male Martyrs in the South English Legendary8 Violence or Cruelty? An Intercultural Perspective; 9 Body as Champion of Church Authority and Sacred Place: The Murder of Thomas Becket; 10 Chaucer's Clerk's Tale: Interrogating 'Virtue' through Violence; 11 Violence, the Queen's Body, and the Medieval Body Politic; 12 Violence in the Early Robin Hood Poems; 13 Canon Laws regarding Female Military Commanders up to the Time of Gratian: Some Texts and Their Historical Contexts; Conclusion.