Second volume of the first world history of violence, covering the Middle Millennium, written by an international team of experts.

1. Violence in inner Asian history Nicola Di Cosmo; 2. Conspirators in violence Don J. Wyatt; 3. Armies, lords and subjects in Medieval Iran Jürgen Paul; 4. Armies and bands in early medieval Europe John France; 5. Viking violence Anders Winroth; 6. Early medieval China's rulers, retainers and harem Jonathan Karam Skaff; 7. Warrior regimes and the regulation of violence in medieval Japan David Spafford; 8. Torture and public executions in the Islamic middle period Christian Lange; 9. Crime and law in Europe Hannah Skoda; 10. Banditry and peasants in medieval Japan Morten Oxenbøll; 11. State, society and trained violence in middle period China Peter Lorge; 12. Seigneurial violence in medieval Europe Justine Firnhaber-Baker; 13. The growth of military power and the impact of state military violence in Western Europe, c.1460 to 1560 David Potter; 14. Ethnic and religious violence in Byzantium Teresa Shawcross; 15. Violence against women in the early Islamic period Nadia Maria El Cheikh; 16. Violence and murder in Europe Sara M. Butler; 17. Religion and violence in China T. H. Barrett; 18. Religion and violence in premodern Japan Martin Repp; 19. Human sacrifice and ritualised violence in the Americas before the European conquest Ute Schüren and Wolfgang Gabbert; 20. 'Not cruelty but piety': circumscribing European crusading violence Susanna A. Throop; 21. Chivalric violence Richard W. Kaeuper; 22. Jihad in Islamic thought Asma Afsaruddin; 23. Christian violence against heretics, Jews and Muslims Christine Caldwell Ames; 24. 'Fighting for peace' John Haldon; 25. Obligation, substitution and order Andrew K. Scherer; 26. Representations of violence in Imperial China Bret Hinsch; 27. Revealing the manly worth Hitomi Tonomura; 28. Picturing violence in the Islamic lands Sheila Blair; 29. Scenes of violence in Arabic literature James Montgomery; 30. Violence Is the name of the (bad) game Albrecht Classen; 31. Violence and the force of representation in European art Mitchell B. Merback.