Peacemaking and the Restraint of Violence in High Medieval Europe

Simon Lebouteiller holds a PhD in Medieval History and taught History and Scandinavian Studies at the Universities of Oslo and Sorbonne. He is currently an Associate Professor of Old Norse and Icelandic Studies at the University of Caen, Normandy, and a member of the research centre ERLIS (Équipe de Recherche sur les Littératures, les Imaginaires et les Sociétés). His research investigates peacemaking, rituals, political practices, and ideologies in medieval Scandinavia, as well as Norse historiography. He has also translated Icelandic sagas into French, such as Knýtlinga saga (La saga des rois de Danemark: Knýtlinga saga. Transl. Simon Lebouteiller. Toulouse: 2021). Louisa Taylor is Lecturer in Medieval History at Aberystwyth University and Lecturer in History at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI). Her research explores elite culture and behaviour during conflict in high and late medieval Scandinavia, Iceland, England, Wales, and the Baltic region using comparative perspectives.

Introduction: Peacemaking and the Restraint of Violence in High Medieval Europe

Simon Lebouteiller and Louisa Taylor

Part 1 – Restraining Violence: Ideas and Practices

Chapter 1 – The Submission of Rebellious Cities in the Roman-German Empire

Hermann Kamp

Chapter 2 – Peace or Punishment in Medieval England: From 1215 to 1322

Stephen D. White

Chapter 3 – ‘Be at peace with God and me’: Violence, War, and Royal Responses to Insurrection in Medieval Scotland, c. 1100–1286

Iain MacIness

Chapter 4 – Conflicts and the Use of Exile as a Means of Restraining Violence in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Castile-León

Harald Endre Tafjord

Part 2 – Negotiating and Defining Peace

Chapter 5 – The ‘Old Peace’ as a Peacemaking Institution in Thirteenth-Century German-Russian Trade Treaties

Tobias Boestad

Chapter 6 – Encounters at the Water’s Edge: Peace Meetings on Rivers, Bridges, and Islands in Medieval Scandinavia

Simon Lebouteiller

Chapter 7 – God’s Peace and the King’s Peace in High Medieval Norway

David Brégaint

Part 3 – Establishing and Maintaining Relationships

Chapter 8 – Food, Peacemaking, and Maintenance in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century England

Lars Kjær

Chapter 9 – Food and Clothing in Rituals of Peacemaking in Medieval Europe and the Latin East

Yvonne Friedman

Chapter 10 – Cloth, Clothing, and Peacemaking in Byzantium: From the Second Part of the Eleventh Century to the Middle of the Thirteenth Century

Nicolas Drocourt