Böcker av Paul R. Hyams

Intends to balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture in the Middle Ages. This title includes an examination of the historiography of medieval vengeance, and the difficulties of investigating such a concept in the medieval period and the reasons for so doing.

Duels and bloodfeuds have long been regarded as essentially Continental phenomena, counter to the staid and orderly British ways of settling differences. In this surprising work of social and legal history, Paul R. Hyams reveals a post-Conquest...