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Conflict is defined here broadly and inclusively as an element of social life and social relations. Its study encompasses the law, not just disputes concerning property, but wider issues of criminality, coercion and violence, status, sex, sexuality and gender, as well as the phases and manifestations of conflict and the behaviors brought to bear on it. It engages, too, with the nature of the transformation spanning the Carolingian period, and its implications for the meanings of power, violence, and peace. Conflict in Medieval Europe represents the 'American school' of the study of medieval conflict and social order. Framed by two substantial historiographical and conceptual surveys of the field, it brings together two generations of scholars: the pioneers, who continue to expand the research agenda; and younger colleagues, who represent the best emerging work on this subject. The book therefore both marks the trajectory of conflict studies in the United States and presents a set of original, highly individual contributions across a shifting conceptual range, indicative of a major transition in the field.

Conflict in Medieval Europe is a series of articles by several of the top scholars in the United States. Consistently with their most current work, conflict is defined broadly and inclusively, and the book concerns the prevention and settlement of dispute; the role of emotions related to conflict, such as fear, anger, or spite; the language and gesture by which conflict was articulated; other major phenomena of which conflict was an aspect-lordship, power, law, gender, and sexuality; and heuristic issues of access to these subjects through the written record.

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Contents: Preface; What conflict means: the making of medieval conflict studies in the United States, 1970-2000, Warren C. Brown and Piotr GA³recki; 10th-century courts at MA￠con and the perils of structuralist history: re-reading Burgundian judicial institutions, Stephen D. White; Reform and lordship in Alsace at the turn of the millennium, Hans Hummer; Visualizing a dispute resolution: Peter of Albano's protected zone, Barbara H. Rosenwein; The fragmentation and redemption of a medieval cathedral: property, conflict, and public piety in 11th-century Arezzo, William North; Punishments in 11th-century Normandy, Emily Zack Tabuteau; Baldwin VII of Flanders and the Toll of Saint-Vaast (1111): judgment as ritual, Geoffrey Koziol; Women and ordeals, Belle Stoddard Tuten; Law and nonmarital sex in the Middle Ages, Henry Ansgar Kelly; Nastiness and wrong, rancor and reconciliation, Paul R. Hyams; The emergence of the crime-tort distinction in England, Charles Donahue, Jr.; Feuding in Viking-age Iceland's Great Village, Jesse L. Byock; Some reflections on violence, reconciliation, and the 'feudal revolution', Fredric L. Cheyette; Where conflict leads: on the present and future of medieval conflict studies in the United States, Warren Brown and Piotr GA³recki; Bibliography; Index.

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