Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Fear of Crime in Late Medieval France -- 2. Needful Things -- 3. In Defense of Revenge -- 4. "The Doom of Resoun": Accommodating Lay Interpretation in Late Medieval England -- 5. Chaucer's Hard Cases -- 6. The "Unfaithful Wife" in Medieval Spanish Literature and Law -- 7. The Rights of Medieval English Women: Crime and the Issue of Representation -- 8. Violence against Women in Fifteenth-Century France and the Burgundian State -- 9. The Host, the Law, and the Ambiguous Space of Medieval London Taverns -- 10. Slaughter and Romance: Hunting Reserves in Late Medieval England -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.