Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Spectator Responses to an Image of Violence: Seeing Apollonia 7
6. Der ernsthafte König oder die Hölle schon auf Erden: Gewalt im Dienste des Seelenheils 21
7. Lazarus’s Vision of Hell: A Significant Passage in Late-Medieval Passion Plays 44
8. Violence and Late-Medieval Justice 56
9. La noblesse face à la violence: arrestations, exécutions et assassinats dans les Chroniques de Jean Froissart commandées par Louis de Gruuthuse (Paris, B.N.F., mss. fr. 2643–46) 68
10. The Music of the Medieval Body in Pain 93
11. The Emergence of Sexual Violence in Quattrocento Florentine Art 113
12. Some Lesser-Known Ladies of Public Art: On Women and Lions 129
13. The Self in the Eyes of the Other: Creating Violent Expectations in Late-Medieval German Drama 149
14. Cleansing the Social Body: Andrea Mantegna’s Judith and the Moor (1490–1505) 161
15. Aggression and Annihilation: Spanish Sentimental Romances and the Legends of the Saints 177
16. Der Malleus Maleficarum (1487) und die Hexenverfolgung in Deutschland 185
17. “For They Know Not What They Do”: Violence in Medieval Passion Iconography 200
18. Zur Bedeutung von Gewalt in der Reynaert-Epik des 15. Jahrhunderts 217
19. Terror and Laughter in the Images of the Wild Man: The Case of the 1489 Valentin et Orson 238
20. Rereading Rape in Two Versions of La fille du comte de Pontieu 257
21. The French Kill Their King: The Assassination of Childeric II in Late-Medieval French Historiography 273