Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Kings -- General Maps -- General Introduction -- Part One Power Politics: Kingship, Coercion, and Conflict -- Introduction to Part One -- Conflict and Social (dis)order in Norway, c. 1030-1160 -- Kingship, Women and Politics in Morkinskinna -- How to Legitimate Rebellion and Condemn Usurpation of the Crown: Discourses of Fidelity and Treason in the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus -- Part Two Local Disputes: Property, Justice, and Social Transaction -- Introduction to Part Two -- The Power to Judge: Jurisdiction in Property Conflicts in Thirteenth-Century Denmark -- Disputing Property in Zealand: The Records of the Sorø Donation Book -- Gifts and Society in Fourteenth Century Sweden -- The Field of Property Devolution in Norway During the Late Middle Ages: Inheritance Settlements, Marriage Contracts and Legal Disputes -- Part Three Comparative Perspectives -- The Feelings in the Feud: The Emotional Turn in the Study of Medieval Vengeance -- The Rules of Conflict Among the Warrior Aristocracy of the High Middle Ages -- Legal History and the History of Disputes -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Names -- Index of Places.