انتقام در قرون وسطی: احساس، دین و دشمنی

This volume aims to balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture in the Middle Ages. The volume begins with an examination of the historiography of medieval vengeance, as well as the difficulties of investigating such a concept in the medieval period and the pressing reasons for so doing. Interdisciplinary articles from scholars in Europe and North America then follow, many contesting or enlarging traditional approaches to and interpretations of vengeance in the Middle Ages. Geographically, the articles in the volume highlight Western Europe (particularly the Anglo-Norman world), Scotland, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal. Thematically, the articles are concerned with heroic cultures of vengeance, vengeance as a legal and political tool, Christian justification and expression of vengeance, literature and the distinction between discourse and reality, and the emotions of vengeance. Methodologically, these interdisciplinary studies incorporate tools borrowed from anthropology, the study of emotion, and modern social and literary theories. Aimed at professional scholars and graduate students within the broad field of medieval studies, incorporating the subfields of history, literature, and religious studies, this collection will also prove interesting to non-medievalists interested in the history of emotion, the justification of human conflict, and the theoretical role of discourse and its applicability to specific historical periods. Although the articles will be written in English, both the geographical scope of the volume and its international contributors will promote its use outside the English-speaking academic world. This volume aims to balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture in the Middle Ages. A diverse assortment of interdisciplinary essays from scholars in Europe and North America contest or enlarge traditional approaches to and interpretations of vengeance in the Middle Ages. Each essay attempts to clarify the multifaceted experience of vengeance within a specific medieval context”a particular region, a particular text, a particular social movement. By asking what relationship a distinct factor like authorship or religion has with the concept of vengeance, each author points towards the breadth of meanings of medieval vengeance, and to the heart of the deeper and broader questions that spur scholarly interest in the subject. Geographically, the essays in the volume highlight Western Europe (particularly the Anglo-Norman world), Scotland, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal. Thematically, the essays are concerned with heroic cultures of vengeance, vengeance as a legal and political tool, Christian justification and expression of vengeance, literature and the distinction between discourse and reality, and the emotions of vengeance. Methodologically, these interdisciplinary studies incorporate tools borrowed from anthropology, the study of emotion, and modern social and literary theories. This volume is aimed at professional scholars and graduate students within the broad field of medieval studies, including the subfields of history, literature, and religious studies, and is intended to inspire further research on medieval vengeance. However, this collection will also prove interesting to non-medievalists interested in the history of emotion, the justification of human conflict, and the concept of feud and its applicability to specific historical periods. "Vengeance is mine" : saintly retribution in Medieval Ireland / Máire Johnson The "fyre of Ire kyndild" in the fifteenth-century Scottish marches / Jackson W. Armstrong Living in fear of revenge : religious minorities and the right to bear arms in fifteenth-century Portugal / François Soyer Chivalric feud in tenth-century France / Dominique Barthélemy The way vengeance comes : rancorous deeds and words in the world of Orderic Vitalis / Thomas Roche Verbal and physical violence in the historie of Aurelio and Isabell / Marina Brownlee Was there really such a thing as feud in the high Middle Ages? / Paul R. Hyams Zeal, anger, and vengeance : the emotional rhetoric of crusading / Susanna A. Throop Afterword : neither unnatural nor wholly negative : the future of medieval vengeance / Paul R. Hyams. Contents 6 Notes on Contributors 8 Acknowledgements 10 Introduction: The Study of Vengeance in the Middle Ages 12 1 “Vengeance is Mine”: Saintly Retribution in Medieval Ireland 16 2 The “Fyre of Ire Kyndild” in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches 62 3 Living in Fear of Revenge: Religious Minorities and the Right to Bear Arms in Fifteenth-Century Portugal 96 4 Feudal War in Tenth-Century France 116 5 The Way Vengeance Comes: Rancorous Deeds and Words in the World of Orderic Vitalis 126 6 Verbal and Physical Violence in the Historie of Aurelio and Isabell 148 7 Was There Really Such a Thing as Feud in the High Middle Ages? 162 8 Zeal, Anger and Vengeance: The Emotional Rhetoric of Crusading 188 Afterword: Neither Unnatural nor Wholly Negative: The Future of Medieval Vengeance 214 Index 232 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 studies, incorporating the subfields of history, literature, and religious studies, this collection will also prove interesting to non-medievalists interested in the history of emotion, the justification of human conflict, and the theoretical role of di