"Vengeance is mine" : saintly retribution in Medieval Ireland / Máire Johnson -- The "fyre of Ire kyndild" in the fifteenth-century Scottish marches / Jackson W. Armstrong -- Living in fear of revenge : religious minorities and the right to bear arms in fifteenth-century Portugal / François Soyer -- Chivalric feud in tenth-century France / Dominique Barthélemy -- The way vengeance comes : rancorous deeds and words in the world of Orderic Vitalis / Thomas Roche -- Verbal and physical violence in the historie of Aurelio and Isabell / Marina Brownlee -- Was there really such a thing as feud in the high Middle Ages? / Paul R. Hyams -- Zeal, anger, and vengeance : the emotional rhetoric of crusading / Susanna A. Throop -- Afterword : neither unnatural nor wholly negative : the future of medieval vengeance / Paul R. Hyams