Aproximaciones historiográficas a la violencia en la Edad Media

Cecilia Devia

doi:10.4000/medievalista.1109

Historiographical approaches to violence in the Middle Ages

Authors

Cecilia Devia Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Instituto de Historia Antigua y Medieval 1002 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4000/medievalista.1109

Keywords:

Historiography, Late Middle Ages, Western Europe, violence

Abstract

This paper consists of a brief state of the question on the issue of violence in the Middle Ages, framed in the following coordinates of time and space: the late medieval Western Europe. In this opportunity, it takes into account only historiographical approaches.

In the first place, are presented two moments that stand out in relation to violence in the Middle Ages, focusing mainly from the authors whose research has left more traces. Then, it discuss a selection of the most significant historiographical contributions published over the last twenty years or so.