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Introduction : peacemaking and the restraint of violence in high medieval Europe / Simon Lebouteiller and Louisa Taylor -- The submission of rebellious cities in the Roman-German Empire / Hermann Kamp -- Peace or punishment in medieval England : from 1215 to 1322 / Stephen D. White -- 'Be at peace with God and me' : violence, war, and royal responses to insurrection in medieval Scotland, c. 1100-1286 / Iain MacIness -- Conflicts and the use of exile as a means of restraining violence in eleventh- and twelfth-century / Castile-León -- The 'old peace' as a peacemaking institution in thirteenth-century German-Russian trade treaties / Tobias Boestad -- Encounters at the water's edge : peace meetings on rivers, bridges, and islands in medieval Scandinavia / Simon Lebouteiller -- God's peace and the king's peace in high medieval Norway / David Brégaint -- Food, peacemaking, and maintenance in twelfth- and thirteenth-century England / Lars Kjær -- Food and clothing in rituals of peacemaking in medieval Europe and the Latin East / Yvonne Friedman -- Cloth, clothing, and peacemaking in Byzantium : from the second part of the eleventh century to the middle of the thirteenth century / Nicolas Drocourt.

"Beginning in the 12th century, taxation increasingly became an essential component of medieval society in most part of Europe. The state building process, relations between princes and their subject cities or between citizens and their rulers, were deeply shaped by fiscal practices. Although medieval taxation has produced many publications over the past decades there remains no synthesis of this important subject. This volume provides a comprehensive overview on a European scale and suggests new paths of inquiry. It examines the fiscal systems and practices of medieval Europe, including essential themes such as medieval fiscal theory and the power to tax; royal, seigneurial and urban taxation; and Church taxation. It goes on to survey the entire European continent, as well as including comparative chapters on the non-European medieval world, exploring questions on how taxation developed and functioned; what kinds of problems authorities encountered assessing their fiscal power; and the circulation of fiscal cultures and practices across cities and kingdoms. The book also provides a glossary of the most important types of medieval taxes, giving an essential definition of key terms cited in the chapters. The Routledge Handbook of Taxation in Medieval Europe will appeal to a large audience, from seasoned scholars who need a comprehensive synthesis, to students and younger scholars in search of an overview of this critical subject"--

On various occasions civilized man has found himself marching side by side with men at lower (or different) levels of social and cultural development. The great civilizations were accustomed to compare themselves quite favorably with these barbarian neighbors, whom they viewed with varying degrees of condescension, suspicion, scorn, and dread. Civilized man, with his urban institutions, his agrarian way of life, his technological and economic sophistication, and his conspicuous literary and plastic artistry, conceived of himself as superior to these other folk with whom he sometimes competed for domination of the richer parts of the world. Long before the ancient Greeks invented the word 'barbarian' to describe the Scythians and other peoples who differed from them in not subscribing to the ideals of Greek culture, other civilized men had expressed similar sentiments toward alien peoples with whom they came into contact. This was the point that the old Akkadian author was trying to make when he spoke of neighboring tribes as people 'who knew not grain' and who 'had never known a city'.* Subsequently, both in Asia and Europe the spokesmen of a civilized style of life expressed their dislike or distrust of the barbarian by means of a stereotyped image of him which was couched in terms favorable to civilization. A Chinese chronicler, for example, remarked of the fierce Hsiung-Nu, who troubled the peace of the Middle Kingdom, that 'their only concern is self-advantage, and they know nothing of propriety and righteousness'.

A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history.This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age explores peace from 800 to 1450. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace, peace movements, maintaining peace, peace in relation to gender, religion and war and representations of peace.A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in the medieval era

1. Upbringing -- 2. Marriage -- 3. Women and family -- 4. The house and household -- 5. Women and work in rural areas -- 6. Townswomen and work -- 7. Ethnic minorities : Jews, Muslims and slaves -- 8. Women and power : noblewomen and queens -- 9. Laywomen and the arts -- 10. Religious life : nuns and nunneries -- 11. Religious life : beguines, penitents and recluses -- 12. Mystics and saints -- 13. Laywomen and charity -- 14. Lay beliefs and religious practice -- 15. Women, heresy and witchcraft.

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- vii -- Introduction -- ix -- Chapter 1 -- The Greco-Roman World -- Melitta Weiss Adamson -- 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Medieval Britain -- Constance B. Hieatt -- 19 -- Chapter 3 -- Medieval France -- A. THE NORTH -- Terence Scully -- 47 -- B. THE SOUTH -- Carole Lambert -- 67 -- Chapter 4 -- Medieval and Renaissance Italy -- A. THE PENINSULA -- Simon Varey -- 85 -- B. SICILY -- Habeeb Salloum -- 113 -- Chapter 5 -- Medieval Spain -- Rafael Chabran -- 125 -- Chapter 6 -- Medieval Germany -- Melitta Weiss Adamson -- 153 -- Chapter 7 -- The Low Countries in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- lohanna Maria van Winter -- 197 -- Bibliography -- 215 -- Contributors -- 235 -- Index -- 239