Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble
ISBN: 9780801455766
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Crime; Pardon; Sociological jurisprudence;

An example of microhistory at its best, this book offers a new perspective on the socal history of medieval and early modern Europe and on historiography more broadly.


Peter Arnade is Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He is the author of Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots: The Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt and Realms of Ritual: Burgundian Ceremony and Civic Life in Late Medieval Ghent , both from Cornell. Walter Prevenier is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and the author or coauthor of numerous books, including From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods , also from Cornell, and The Promised Lands: The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530 .

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