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  • 13 - Reframing the History of Violence

  • Jonathan R. Lyon, University of Chicago
  • Book:
    Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
    Published online:
    12 October 2022
    Print publication:
    24 November 2022, pp 279-302

  • 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.