Vengeance in the Middle Ages: Emotion, Religion and Feud

ISBN-13: 9780367740122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 242 str.

Paul R. Hyams; Susanna A. Throop

Opis

Incorporating tools borrowed from anthropology, the study of emotion, and modern social and literary theories, these studies balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture in the Middle Ages. Aimed at scholars and graduate students within the broad field of medieval stu

Recenzje

'This volume, with its diversity of scholarly approaches, sources, and contexts, will certainly help to elucidate further this blend of complexity and coherence that lay behind processes of feud and vengeance in the Middle Ages.' Journal of British Studies 'Susanna Throop and Paul Hyams deserve congratulations for producing this diverse but largely coherent collection of essays on the theme of vengeance... essential reading for those writing about vengeance and feuding in the future.' English Historical Review

Spis treści

Vengeance in the Middle Ages

O autorze

Professor Susanna A. Throop, Ursinus College, USA and Professor Paul R. Hyams, Cornell University, USA.