{"product_id":"honor-vengeance-and-social-trouble-pardon-letters-in-the-burgundian-low-countries-9780801479915","title":"Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letters--petitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to monarchs and princes in France and the Low Countries in the hopes of receiving a full pardon. The fifteenth-century Burgundian Low Countries and duchy of Burgundy produced a large cache of these petitions, from both major cities (Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and Dijon) and rural communities. In \u003ci\u003eHonor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Arnade and Walter Prevenier present the first study in English of these letters to explore and interrogate the boundaries between these sources' internal, discursive properties and the social world beyond the written text.\u003ci\u003eHonor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e takes the reader out onto the streets and into the taverns, homes, and workplaces of the Burgundian territories, charting the most pressing social concerns of the day: everything from family disputes and vendettas to marital infidelity and property conflicts--and, more generally, the problems of public violence, abduction and rape, and the role of honor and revenge in adjudicating disputes. Arnade and Prevenier examine why the right to pardon was often enacted by the Burgundian dukes and how it came to compete with more traditional legal means of resolving disputes. In addition, they consider the pardon letter as a historical source, highlighting the limitations and pitfalls of relying on documents that are, by their very nature, narratives shaped by the petitioner to seek a favored outcome. The book also includes a detailed case study of a female actress turned prostitute.An example of microhistory at its best, \u003ci\u003eHonor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e will challenge scholars while being accessible to students in courses on medieval and early modern Europe or on historiography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter 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 \u003ci\u003eBeggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots: The Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRealms of Ritual: Burgundian Ceremony and Civic Life in Late Medieval Ghent\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eFrom Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods\u003c\/i\u003e, also from Cornell, and \u003ci\u003eThe Promised Lands: The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328338202898,"sku":"9780801479915","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1c735dad-f47d-4d11-8e65-600e35f2a238.jpg?v=1727735911","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/honor-vengeance-and-social-trouble-pardon-letters-in-the-burgundian-low-countries-9780801479915","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}