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The European Middle Ages have long attracted popular interest as an era characterised by violence, whether a reflection of societal brutality and lawlessness or part of a romantic vision of chivalry. Violence in Medieval Europe engages with current scholarly debate about the degree to which medieval European society was in fact shaped by such forces.Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Warren Brown examines the norms governing violence within medieval societies from the sixth to the fourteenth century, over an area covering the Romance and the Germanic-speaking regions of the continen

Cognitive neuroscience has raised important questions regarding the religious understanding of persons as bodies inhabited by nonmaterial souls (dualism). Although physicalism (monism) offers an alternative, this view has typically been associated with reductionism that is inconsistent with a religious view of persons. Nonreductive physicalism provides a description of human nature that is more resonant with a theological perspective. Nonreductive physicalism entails abandonment of reductionism in science and of body-soul dualism in theological anthropology. This article suggests that nonreductive physicalism preserves the critical properties and attributes of human nature, and potentials for human experience, which have been described in religious scriptures and assigned to the soul. It is argued that a critical feature of a religious view of persons is a capacity for the deepest forms of personal relatedness. Thus, soul is an attribute of physical human beings that is an emergent property of the capacity and experiences of personal relatedness.

1. What conflict means : the making of medieval conflict studies in the United States, 1970-2000 / Warren C. Brown and Piotr Gorecki -- 2. Tenth-century courts at Macon and the perils of structuralist history : re-reading Burgundian judicial institutions / Stephen D. White -- 3. Reform and lordship in Alsace at the turn of the millennium / Hans Hummer -- 4. Visualizing a dispute resolution : Peter of Albano's protected zone / Barbara H. Rosenwein -- 5. The fragmentation and redemption of a medieval cathedral : property, conflict, and public piety in eleventh-century Arezzo / William North -- 6. Punishments in eleventh-century Normandy / Emily Zack Tabuteau -- 7. Baldwin VII of Flanders and the Toll of Saint-Vaast (1111) : judgment as ritual / Geoffrey Koziol -- 8. Women and ordeals / Belle Stoddard Tuten -- 9. Law and nonmarital sex in the Middle Ages / Henry Ansgar Kelly -- 10. Nastiness and wrong, rancor and reconciliation / Paul R. Hyams -- 11. The emergence of the crime : tort distinction in England / Charles Donahue, Jr. -- 12. Feuding in Viking-age Iceland's great village / Jesse L. Byock -- 13. Some reflections on violence, reconciliation, and the "feudal revolution" / Fredric L. Cheyette -- 14. Where conflict leads : on the present and future of medieval conflict studies in the United States / Warren C. Brown and Piotr Gorecki.

Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion is the second title published in the new Templeton Science and Religion Series. In this volume, Malcolm Jeeves and Warren S. Brown provide an overview of the relationship between neuroscience, psychology, and religion that is academically sophisticated, yet accessible to the general reader.The authors introduce key terms; thoroughly chart the histories of both neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on how these disciplines have interfaced religion through the ages; and explore contemporary approaches to both fields, reviewing how current sci