The European Middle Ages have long attracted popular interest as an era characterised by violence, whether a reflection of societal brutality and lawlessness or

Medieval Europe was a rapidly developing society with a problem of violent disorder. Professor Kaeuper's original and authoritative study reveals that chivalry

The volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early modern period, involving European and Japanese sc

Studies of ways in which the rapidly evolving society of medieval Europe developed social, legal and practical responses to public and private violence.

Interrogating how medieval and early modern communities have acted as participants, observers, and interpreters of events and how they ascribed meaning to them,