Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West

ROSS BALZARETTI is Professor of Italian History at the University of Nottingham.

"Thought-provoking and characterized by a high level of scholarship. History; An important addition to the dialogue concerning the nature of conflict and its resolution in the early medieval West. Historian [US]

• Part 1 Levels ideals and realities: legitimate and illegitimate violence in Visigothic legal and ecclesiastical thought, Luis A. Garcia Moreno; the normalization of violence in later Merovingian Francia, Paul Fouracre; urban violence in early medieval Italy - the cases of Rome and Ravenna, T.S. Brown; the ritualization of nineth-century Frankish warfare, Janet L. Nelson. Part 2 Ritual violence: execution and ritual trauma burials in Anglo-Saxon England, Helen Geake; ritual regicide in early medieval Ireland, N.B. Aitchison. Part 3 Violence and socio-political order: violence and late Viking Age Scandinavian social order, Guy Morris; feud and warfare in Normandy during the Minority of William the Bastard, Matthew Bennett. Part 4 Violence and gender: the regulation of female violence in early medieval Italy, Ross Balzaretti; attitudes towards rape in Anglo-Saxon England, Julie Coleman; selective female infanticide in Viking Age Scandinavia, Nancy L. Wicker. Part 5 Violence and colonization: "the armed man" - violent iconography domination and resistance in the stone sculpture of Viking Age Northumbria, Neil S. Price; aristocratic violence in Leon-Castile c.950-1100, Simon Barton; violence and the creation of socio-political order in Yorkshire in the 1070s, Sarah Speight.