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- Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
- Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Additional material
- Introduction
- 1 The First “Medieval” Advocates
- 2 Putting Down Roots in Ninth-Century Francia
- 3 The “Aristocratization” of Post-Carolingian Advocacy
- 4 Elite Competition at the Turn of the First Millennium
- 5 The Limits of Church Reform
- 6 Pigs and Sheep, Beer and Wine, Pennies and Pounds
- 7 A History of Violence
- 8 Weapons of the Not-So-Weak
- 9 The Murder of Archbishop Engelbert
- 10 Widening the Lens
- 11 The Emperor as Vogt, ca. 1000–1500
- 12 From Lordship to Government?
- 13 Reframing the History of Violence
- 14 Crossing the False Divide
- 15 A Cultural History of the Rapacious Advocate, or: William Tell’s Revenge
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
13 - Reframing the History of Violence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2022
- Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
- Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Additional material
- Introduction
- 1 The First “Medieval” Advocates
- 2 Putting Down Roots in Ninth-Century Francia
- 3 The “Aristocratization” of Post-Carolingian Advocacy
- 4 Elite Competition at the Turn of the First Millennium
- 5 The Limits of Church Reform
- 6 Pigs and Sheep, Beer and Wine, Pennies and Pounds
- 7 A History of Violence
- 8 Weapons of the Not-So-Weak
- 9 The Murder of Archbishop Engelbert
- 10 Widening the Lens
- 11 The Emperor as Vogt, ca. 1000–1500
- 12 From Lordship to Government?
- 13 Reframing the History of Violence
- 14 Crossing the False Divide
- 15 A Cultural History of the Rapacious Advocate, or: William Tell’s Revenge
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
This chapter returns to the theme of Chapter 7 and argues that church, town and territorial advocates during the period 1250 to 1500 were accused of committing many of the same types of violent acts as advocates of the preceding period, further challenging medieval historians’ arguments about the rise of government and bureaucracy during this period. It also calls into question scholars’ claims about the emergence of bourgeois society as marking a break with older, corrupt practices of justice and protection. It begins with a general survey of the evidence for advocatial violence between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries and then focuses on three case studies to highlight continuity with earlier centuries. One case study concerns the territorial advocate Peter of Hagenbach, who was tried and executed in 1474 for his abuses of power.
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- Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval EuropeA Thousand-Year History, pp. 279 - 302Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022