Feud, violence and practice essays in medieval studies in honor of Stephen D White

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : feud, violence, and practice / Belle Stoddard Tuten -- Threat / William Ian Miller -- Feud, vengence, and violence in England from the tenth to the twelth centuries / John G.H. Hudson --The politics of chivalry : the function of anger and shame in eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman historical narratives / Kate McGrath -- Devils in the sanctuary : violence in the miracles of Saint Benedict / Dominique Barthélemy -- Violence occluded : the wound in Christ's side in late medieval vevotion / Caroline W. Bynum -- "Feudalism" : a memoir and an assessment / Fredric L. Cheyette -- Reflections on feudalism : Sir Thomas Madox and the origins of the feudal system in England -- Elizabeth A.R. Brown -- The language and practice of negotiation in medieval conflict resolution (Castille-Leon, 11th-13th centuries) / Isabel Alfonso Antón -- Thinking English law in French : the Angevins and the common law / Paul R. Hyams -- Mortal enmities : the legal aspects of hostility in the Middle Ages / Robert Bartlett -- Making a clamor to the lord : noise, justice and power in eleventh- and twelfth-century France / Richard E. Barton -- Dating the medieval work : the case of the miracles of St. Andrew Window from Troyes Cathedral / Elizabeth Pastan -- Kinship, disputing, and ira : a mother-daughter quarrel in southern France / Cynthia J. Johnson -- Rescuing the maidens from the tower : recovering the stories of two female political hostages / Annette P. Parks -- Treason and politics in Anglo-Norman histories / Karen Bosnos.