Research Catalog

Title

Violence in the ancient and medieval worlds / edited by Maria Cristina Pimentel and Nuno Simóes Rodrigues ; with the collaboration of Gabriel Silva [and 3 others].

Publication

• Leuven : Peeters, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pimentel, Maria Cristina
• Rodrigues, Nuno Simões

Description

x, 582 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Being an integral element of how humans interact with one another, violence, however disruptive, often also manifests itself as an ordering force. In this collection of essays, the contributing authors explore this particular aspect of violence from a wide variety of perspectives, in a set of studies that focus on both the ancient and medieval worlds. Case-studies in the section on Antiquity include work on such issues as domestic violence; violence and myth; violence in Greek and Roman historiography, poetry, comedy and tragedy, and art; women and violence; violence and pollution; and various studies on classical Greek and Roman perceptions of violence. The medieval section continues with papers that look into the role of violence in the saints' lives and passions, violence in the love poems of the Carmina Burana, as well as several studies that center on actual cases of violence, such as violence and women in medieval Galicia and violence at Portuguese universities during the High Middle Ages. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in how and why violence came to be embedded in the cultural practices of classical Greece, ancient Rome, and medieval Europe."-- Back cover.

Series Statement

Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion ; 19

Uniform Title

Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion ; 19.

Subjects

• Greece
• Europe
• Violence
• History
• Social conditions
• Violence > History
• Rome > Social conditions
• To 1492
• Rome (Empire)
• Greece > Social conditions > To 146 B.C
• Europe > Social conditions > To 1492

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [533]-582).

Contents

Introduction : decide, uerbera, ure! : what about violence in ancient and medieval times? / Maria Cristina Pimentel, Nuno Simões Rodrigues -- The dawn of human violence : a reading of Posidonius, Lucretius and Sallust / Nicoletta Bruno -- Violence and the feminine : the elegiac woman in action / Arcangela Cafagna -- Domestic violence in Roman imperial society : giving abused women a voice / Margherita Carucci -- Duel and violent death in Propertius' elegy 4,10 / Irma Ciccarelli -- The wrath of gods falls upon men : the case of ancient Arkadia / María Cruz Cardete -- Why does Zeus rape? : an evolutionary psychological perspective / Susan Deacy -- The motif of verberare puellam in Latin elegiac poetry / Rosalba Dimundo -- Violence as a manifestation of 'pietas' / Paolo Fedeli -- Violence in prayer : God's "other side" in the book of Psalms : a literary approach / Maria Fernandes -- The rhetoric of violence and erotic masochism in the epistles of Philostratus / Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo -- Another Medea? : violence and Procne's family in Ovid's Metamorphoses 6 / Nikoletta Manioti -- Violence against slaves as an element of theatre in Plautus / Marc Mayer I Olivé -- Himerius's testimony on mousike as a means of preventing violence in the late antique school of rhetoric / José Guillermo Montes Cala -- Violence and myth : the creative violence of dragon-slaying in the ancient and early medieval worlds / Daniel Ogden -- Death omens in Aeschylus and Sophocles : Clytaemnestra's dream between blood revenge and the struggle for power / Pierpaolo Peroni -- Viriathus and his contemporaries as victims and perpetrators of conflict violence / Deborah L. Potter -- Strike, smite and terrify : reflections on physical, ritual and psychological violence in ancient Egypt / José das Candeias Sales -- Blood feud and blood pollution in archaic and early classical Greece / Irene Salvo -- Violence in Statius' Tydeus : against others or against himself? / Carlo Santini -- Pursuit and ritual on early south Italian and Sicilian red-figure pottery. The workshop of the Himera painter and the new iconographie compositions of the late 5th century BC / Marco Serino -- (Not) doing violence to myth : the suppression of force in Pindar / Daniel Sicka -- Misit Thyesteas preces : cursing and magic in Horace's Epode 5 / Gabriel A.F. Silva -- Filicide in the house of Atreus / Maria de Fátima Silva -- Female group violence in Greek myth : a case study on the Lemnian androctony and the crime of the Danaids / Nereida Villagra -- 'Visual' metaphors of violence : representations of submission on Roman coins / Marco Vitale -- Violence in the love poems of the Carmina Burana / José Carracedo Fraga -- Violence reflected : high-medieval diplomatic cautelae as a mirror of society / José Manuel Díaz de Bustamante -- A targeted violence : the early years of Venetian rule in Padua / Daniele Dibello -- Divino interim gladio : the suffering of the judge in some Visigothic passions / Ivan Neves Figueiras -- Words, actions and controlled lives. Women and violence in medieval Galicia / Miguel García-Fernández -- Oportet te accipere virum et laetari : a form of violence in some lives of virgin saints / María Elisa Lage Cotos -- Violence and conflict in the Portuguese medieval university : from the late-thirteenth to the early-sixteenth century / Armando Norte, André de Oliveira Leitão.

Call Number

JFE 19-6506

ISBN

• 9789042936027
• 9042936029

LCCN

9789042936027

OCLC

1091898593

Title

Violence in the ancient and medieval worlds / edited by Maria Cristina Pimentel and Nuno Simóes Rodrigues ; with the collaboration of Gabriel Silva [and 3 others].

Publisher

Leuven : Peeters, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion ; 19

Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion ; 19.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [533]-582).

Chronological Term

To 1492

Added Author

Pimentel, Maria Cristina, editor.

Rodrigues, Nuno Simões, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

9789042936027

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6506