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Introduction: The shameful business of betrayal and treason / Larissa Tracy -- Wiglaf's sword : the coming of the state / Frank Battaglia -- In sickness and in health : the Boethian narrative of the two Geralds of Brecon / Sarah J. Sprouse -- Treasonous and dishonorable conduct : the private dimension of treason and chivalric reform in late medieval Florence / Peter Sposato -- Royal punishment and reconciliation in Trastamara Castile / Samuel A. Claussen -- "A somewhat too cruel vengeance was taken for the blood of the slain" : royal punishment of rebels, traitors, and political enemies in medieval Scotland, c. 1100-c. 1250 / Iain A. MacInnes -- Revolt in heaven : Lucifer's treason in Genesis B / Daniel Thomas -- Blessed betrayal : the opportunity of treachery in Anglo-Latin ecclesiastical texts / Sally Shockro -- Legal ramifications of ordeals and treason in Morant und Galie / Tina Boyer -- Religious identity, loyalty, and treason in the Cycle du Roi / Ana Grinberg -- Traitors respond : English Catholic polemical strategies against accusations of treason at the end of the sixteenth century / Freddy C. Dominguez -- Treason and deception in late medieval German romances and novels Konigin Sibille, Melusine, and Malagis / Albrecht Classen -- Treacherous women at King Arthur's court : punishment and shame / Inna Matyushina -- Treason and the feast in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur / Melissa Ridley Elmes -- 'Tis fearful sleeping in a serpent's bed' : Arden of Faversham and the threat of the petty traitor / Dianne Berg -- The spatial configuration of shame in La Princesse de Cleves / Susan Small -- Conclusion: The shame game, from Guinevere to Cersei : adultery, treason, and betrayal / Larissa Tracy.

Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervades a number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fabliaux -- exchanges of power predicated upon the exchange or absence of sexual desire signified by genitalia - but the plain, literal act of castration and its implications are often overlooked. This collection explores this often taboo subject and its implications for cultural mores and custom in Western Europe, seeking to demystify and demythologize castration. Its subjects include archaeological studies of eunuchs; historical accounts of castration in trials of combat; the mutilation of political rivals in medieval Wales; Anglo-Saxon and Frisian legal and literary examples of castration as punishment; castration as comedy in the Old French fabliaux; the prohibition against genital mutilation in hagiography; and early-modern anxieties about punitive castration enacted on the Elizabethan stage. The introduction reflects on these topics in the context of arguably the most well-known victim of castration in the Middle Ages, Abelard

Murder - the perpetrators, victims, methods and motives - has been the subject of law, literature, chronicles and religion, often crossing genres and disciplines and employing multiple modes of expression and interpretation. As the chapters in this volume demonstrate, definitions of murder, manslaughter and justified or unjustified homicide depend largely on the legal terminology and the laws of the society. Much like modern nations, medieval societies treated murder and murderers differently based on their social standing, the social standing of the victim, their gender, their mental capacity for understanding their crime, and intent, motive and means. The three parts of this volume explore different aspects of this crime in the Middle Ages. The first provides the legal template for reading cases of murder in a variety of sources. The second examines the public hermeneutics of murder, especially the ways in which medieval societies interpreted and contextualised their textual traditions: Icelandic sagas, Old French fabliaux, Arthuriana and accounts of assassination. Finally, the third part focuses on the effects of murder within the community: murder as a social ill, especially in killing kin. Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. Contributors: Dianne Berg, G. Koolemans Beynen, Dwayne C. Coleman, Jeffrey Doolittle, Carmel Ferragud, Jay Paul Gates, Thomas Gobbitt, Emily J. Hutchison, Jolanta N. Komornicka, Anne Latowsky, Matthew Lubin, Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, Ben Parsons, Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar, Hannah Skoda, Bridgette Slavin, Larissa Tracy, Patricia Turning, Lucas Wood

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The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ's wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds—evidence of which survives in the archaeological record—and literary episodes of fatal (or not so fatal) wounds. This volume offers a comprehensive look at the complexity of wounding and wound repair in medieval literature and culture, bringing together essays from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art history, hagiography, and archaeology across medieval and early modern Europe. Contributors are Stephen Atkinson, Debby Banham, Albrecht Classen, Joshua Easterling, Charlene M. Eska, Carmel Ferragud, M.R. Geldof, Elina Gertsman, Barbara A. Goodman, Máire Johnson, Rachel E. Kellett, Ilana Krug, Virginia Langum, Michael Livingston, Iain A. MacInnes, Timothy May, Vibeke Olson, Salvador Ryan, William Sayers, Patricia Skinner, Alicia Spencer-Hall, Wendy J. Turner, Christine Voth, and Robert C. Woosnam-Savage.

The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ's wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds—evidence of which survives in the archaeological record—and literary episodes of fatal (or not so fatal) wounds. This volume offers a comprehensive look at the complexity of wounding and wound repair in medieval literature and culture, bringing together essays from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art history, hagiography, and archaeology across medieval and early modern Europe. Contributors are Stephen Atkinson, Debby Banham, Albrecht Classen, Joshua Easterling, Charlene M. Eska, Carmel Ferragud, M.R. Geldof, Elina Gertsman, Barbara A. Goodman, Máire Johnson, Rachel E. Kellett, Ilana Krug, Virginia Langum, Michael Livingston, Iain A. MacInnes, Timothy May, Vibeke Olson, Salvador Ryan, William Sayers, Patricia Skinner, Alicia Spencer-Hall, Wendy J. Turner, Christine Voth, and Robert C. Woosnam-Savage.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Larissa Tracy and Jefff Massey -- Non potest hoc corpus decollari: Beheading and the Impossible /Nicola Masciandaro -- "Like a Virgin": The Reheading of St. Edmund and Monastic Reform in Late-Tenth-Century England /Mark Faulkner -- A Crowning Achievement: The Royal Execution and Damnation of Eadric Streona /Jay Paul Gates -- Decapitation, Martyrdom, and Late Medieval Execution Practices in The Book of Margery Kempe /Christine F. Cooper-Rompato -- Talking Heads in Hell: Dante's Use of Severed Heads in Inferno /Dwayne C. Coleman -- Severed Silence: Social Boundaries and Family Honor in Boccaccio's "Tale of Lisabetta" /Mary E. Leech -- The Headless Giant: The Function of Severed Heads in the Ahistorical (Aventiurehafte) Dietrich Epics /Tina Boyer -- "To be a 'Fleschhewere' ": Beheading, Butcher-Knights, and Blood Taboos in Octavian Imperator /Renée Ward -- The Werewolf at the Head Table: Metatheatric "Subtlety" in Arthur and Gorlagon /Jefff Massey -- "So he smote of hir hede by myssefortune": The Real Price of the Beheading Game in SGGK and Malory /Larissa Tracy -- "At the time of his death": The Contested Narrative of Sir Walter Ralegh's Beheading /Andrew Fleck -- "Killing Swine" and planting heads in Shakespeare's Macbeth /Thomas Herron -- "Tucked Beneath Her Arm": Culture, Ideology, and Fantasy in the Curious Legend of Anne Boleyn /Thea Cervone -- "Answering the Call of the Severed Head" /Asa Simon Mittman -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations.

The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ's wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds—evidence of which survives in the archaeological record—and literary episodes of fatal (or not so fatal) wounds. This volume offers a comprehensive look at the complexity of wounding and wound repair in medieval literature and culture, bringing together essays from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art history, hagiography, and archaeology across medieval and early modern Europe. Contributors are Stephen Atkinson, Debby Banham, Albrecht Classen, Joshua Easterling, Charlene M. Eska, Carmel Ferragud, M.R. Geldof, Elina Gertsman, Barbara A. Goodman, Máire Johnson, Rachel E. Kellett, Ilana Krug, Virginia Langum, Michael Livingston, Iain A. MacInnes, Timothy May, Vibeke Olson, Salvador Ryan, William Sayers, Patricia Skinner, Alicia Spencer-Hall, Wendy J. Turner, Christine Voth, and Robert C. Woosnam-Savage.