violence
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Pauline Fest 3: Constraints, violence and gender from magistra 142 days old
[ ... ] intimidatory violence, but who could be brought back 'into line', for example by Lanfranc. It's also important that we need to think more ...
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Motherhood, apple pie and five Carolingians fighting in a sack from magistra 349 days old
[ ... ] put on violence were not onerous by modern standards: magnates still got killed in battle and executed at other times, and the first ...
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Flogging naked monks from magistra 501 days old
Let me make it clear at the start: this post is not a gratuitous attempt at bumping up my page views. This is a serious question that needs researching ...
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Chivalry and barbarism from magistra 866 days old
[ ... ] towards violence and cruelty. So the question becomes: does ‘civilisation’ reduce ‘barbarism’, as is so often presumed? One obvious way of ...
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Hamlet and the medieval kingdom from magistra 1318 days old
I’ve just been to see Ed Stoppard in Hamlet - a very good production at the New Ambassador’s Theatre in London. One of the things I found though, was ...
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Antonin Scalia's flawed moral logic from magistra 1482 days old
I’ve been interested since my trip to the US about the current arguments on the relationship between church and state there. Then I came across this ...
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Medieval honour and emotions from magistra 1537 days old
I’ve started reading a very interesting book: William Ian Miller, ‘Humiliation: and other essays on honor, social discomfort and violence’. A very readable ...
