Fifteenth-Century Studies Vol. 27

Founded in 1977 as the publication organ for the Fifteenth-CenturySymposium Fifteenth-Century Studies has appeared annually sincethen. It publishes essays on all aspects of life in the fifteenth century including literature drama history philosophy art music religion science and ritual and custom. The editors strive to do justice to the most contested medieval century a period that has long been the stepchild of research. The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues: some scholars dispute in fact whether it belonged to the middle ages at all arguing that it was a period of transition a passage to modern times. At issue therefore is the very tenor of an age that stood under the influence of Gutenberg Columbus the Devotio Moderna and Humanism.Volume 27 is a special issue offering a selection of outstanding papers on violence that will interest students of medieval history and the early Renaissance the humanities art history sociology anthropology and even the general reader. The articles highlight warfare and justice violence in family and milieu (court town village and forest) hagiography ethnicity and xenophobia gender relations and sexual violence brutality on the stage and the relation of text and image in the depiction of violence.Edelgard E. DuBruck is professor in the Modern Languages Department at Marygrove College in Detroit; Yael Even is associate professor of Art and Art History at the University of Missouri St. Louis.