{"product_id":"a-great-effusion-of-blood-interpreting-medieval-violence-paperback-softback-9781442628816","title":"'a Great Effusion of Blood'?; Interpreting Medieval Violence (Paperback \/ softback) 9781442628816","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003e'a Great Effusion of Blood'?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eInterpreting Medieval Violence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark D. Meyerson (Edited by), Daniel Thiery (Edited by), Oren Falk (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442628816\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 February 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A worthwhile volume that needs to be reckoned with in discussions of how violence means in medieval society.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Christine M. Rose (Arthuriana) \u003cp\u003e‘Collections like ‘A Great Effusion of Blood?’ help us to better understand the historical and often inextricably tragic connections between violence and the state, between violence and the law, and between violence and moral relations.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Eileen A. Joy (The Sixteenth Century Journal) \u003cp\u003e‘A timely collection of important research on very different aspects of medieval violence.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Dianne Hall (Parergon) \u003cp\u003e‘What we learn from a volume as diverse as ‘A Great Effusion of Blood’? is not only the ubiquity of violence in the Middle Ages but its varied purposes and meaning.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Scott L. Waugh (University of Toronto Quarterly)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A great effusion of blood' was a phrase used frequently throughout medieval Europe as shorthand to describe the effects of immoderate interpersonal violence. Yet the ambiguity of this phrase poses numerous problems for modern readers and scholars in interpreting violence in medieval society and culture and its effect on medieval people. Understanding medieval violence is made even more complex by the multiplicity of views that need to be reconciled: those of modern scholars regarding the psychology and comportment of medieval people, those of the medieval persons themselves as perpetrators or victims of violence, those of medieval writers describing the acts, and those of medieval readers, the audience for these accounts. Using historical records, artistic representation, and theoretical articulation, the contributors to this volume attempt to bring together these views and fashion a comprehensive understanding of medieval conceptions of violence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExploring 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, canon law and chronicles, English and Scottish ballads, the criminal records of fifteenth-century Spain, and more. Taken together, the essays offer fresh ways of analysing medieval violence and its representations, and bring us closer to an understanding of how it was experienced by the people who lived it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Mark D. Meyerson, Daniel Thiery, and Oren Falk\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e PART I: VIOLENCE AND IDENTITY FORMATION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 1 Violence and the Making of Wiglaf\u003cbr\u003e John M. Hill\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 2 Defending Their Masters’ Honour: Slaves as Violent Offenders in Fifteenth-Century Valencia\u003cbr\u003e Debra Blumenthal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 3 The Murder of Pau de Sant Martí: Jews, \u003cem\u003eConversos\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Feud in Fifteenth-Century Valencia\u003cbr\u003e Mark D. Meyerson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 4 Violence and the Sacred City: London, Gower, and the Rising of 1381\u003cbr\u003e Eve Salisbury\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 5 Bystanders and Hearsayers First: Reassessing the Role of the Audience in Duelling\u003cbr\u003e Oren Falk \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 6 Scottish National Heroes and the Limits of Violence\u003cbr\u003e Anne Mckim\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e PART II: VIOLENCE AND THE TESTAMENT OF THE BODY\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 7 Seeing the Gendering of Violence: Female and Male Martyrs in the  \u003cem\u003eSouth English Legendary \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Beth Crachiolo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 8 Violence or Cruelty? An Intercultural Perspective\u003cbr\u003e Daniel Baraz\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 9 Body as Champion of Church Authority and Sacred Place: The Murder of Thomas Becket\u003cbr\u003e Dawn Marie Hayes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 10 Chaucer’s \u003cem\u003eClerk’s Tale\u003c\/em\u003e: Interrogating ‘Virtue’ through Violence\u003cbr\u003e M.C. Bodden\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 11 Violence, the Queen’s Body, and the Medieval Body Politic\u003cbr\u003e John Carmi Parsons\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 12 Violence in the Early Robin Hood Poems 268\u003cbr\u003e Richard Firth Green\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 13 Canon Laws regarding Female Military Commanders up to the Time of Gratian: Some Texts and Their Historical Contexts\u003cbr\u003e David Hay\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Mark D. 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