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    lle Ages. Yet says Swearetoday > Ey Medieval violence ‘nthe 1300sin nocthern France, 2 nasty character named Jacquemon, bribed a aller ro let his unwanted son-inJaw diea painful death in prison. Jacquemon then, with the hel ofhisson, killed his nephew, CColart Cordele. The impoverished Cordele had followed Jacquemon uring the harvest, trying to glean ‘the wheat from behind him, but angered his ‘uncle by coming too lose. Jacquernon grabbed his nephewby hishood, hurled hhim brutally othe ground and “spurred hhishorse to ride again and again” over the crumpled body. sanepisode that might have been lifted from Game of Thrones—no wonder the era hasbecome a byword for brutality Indeed, daring brutal scene in the film Pulp Fiction, one ofthe characters menaces that: "Tin gonna get medievalon your as.” There'sno ‘eed to explain what this might invalve because the stereotype ofthe violent, sadistic Middle Agesis well known tall of us Bat how accurate is this stereotype? As the Jacquemon episode shows, here is plenty that Jsshocking and disturbingin the surviving records forthe later Middle Ages. But even rmorestriking is that medieval contempo- rates were also horrified by such events, OF course, we only know about this case because 1 provoked legal reaction: it wasnt een as, acceptable or even normal. Measures of violence Level of imerperonal lence were cevtiniy higher in he Mile Ages than toca butts very hadto quantify this precsly~ even moreso fw a war andthe Sorrrs of genocide nto the equation. in part this is because the changing natre oflepa rosestons means that we ae not compe Inglikewith Ie. Definitions ofcriminal ‘iolnce haw alo changed for example, rape Tnddomessc violence were defined very arto in the Middle Ages Tae bisorian Laurence Stone calculated thst homicielevels in medieval England snereat lea Dimes what they are oda Certainly, me cannot doubt that itwasa dbangeroos ie in which tlie. An excep- tional case, even by meicral standards provided by l4th-centery Oxf. Levels of ‘olece thee were considered unacceptably high by contemporaries the 13400, the homicide rate was round 110 per 10,00. (Fthe UK in 2011, twas per 100000) ‘Whey were levels of interpersonal violence sohigh in the Middle Age Hiorians have offee various explanations. Steven Pinker hap forwards pychologica theory, cleiing that humankind earned only rece to tomes moe sage impels, A14th-century illustration fora section ‘tthe French poem Romance ofthe Rose depicts a violent “crime of jealousy" meee ee brawls that ended but this doesnt really accoune for the complexity of reactions to violence inthe medieval period, as we shall se. (thers have pointed tothe prevalence of ‘alcohol and the fact that many people were ‘wandering round armed with daggers and. ‘other knives ona daily basis. There were io ‘permanent police forces as there are now, and ‘nmany cases the capture ofa perpetrator

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