Special issue focusing on violence in fifteenth-century life, text, and image: 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.

Preface - Edelgard E. DuBruckIntroduction - Yael EvenSpectator Responses to an Image of Violence: Seeing Apollonia - Marla CarlsonDer ernsthafte König oder die Hölle schon auf Erden: Gewalt im Dienste des Seelenheils - Marianne DerronLazarus's Vision of Hell: A Significant Passage in Late-Medieval Passion Plays - Edelgard E. DuBruckViolence and Late-Medieval Justice - Edelgard E. DuBruckLa noblesse face à la violence: arrestations, exécutions et assassinats dans les Chroniques de Jean Froissart commandées par Louis de Gruuthuse (Paris, B.N.F., mss fr. 2643-46)commandées par Louis de Gruuthuse - Olivier EllenaThe Music of the Medieval Body in Pain - Jody EndersThe Emergence of Sexual Violence in Quattrocento Florentine Art - Yael EvenSome Lesser-Known Ladies of Public Art: On Women and Lions - Yael EvenThe Self in the Eyes of the Other: Creating Violent Expectations in Late-Medieval German Drama - Matthew Z. HeintzelmanCleansing the Social Body: Andrea Mantegna's Judith and the Moor (1490-1505) - Carol JansonAggression and Annihilation: Spanish Sentimental Romances and the Legends of the Saints - Claudia Kruells-HepermannDer Malleus Maleficarum (1487) und die Hexenverfolgung in Deutschland - Ina Lommatzsch"For They Know Not What They Do": Violence in Medieval Passion Iconography - Robert MillsZur Bedeutung von Gewalt in der Reynaert-Epik des 15. Jahrhunderts - Rita SchlusemannTerror and Laughter in the Images of the Wild Man: The Case of the 1489 Valentin et Orson - Shira Schwam-BairdRereading Rape in Two Versions of La Fille du comte de Pontieua - Nancy E VirtueThe French Kill Their King: The Assassination of Childeric II in Late-Medieval French Historiography - Sanford Zale