Yvonne Bongert, Recherches sur les cours laïques du Xe au XIIe siècle (Paris, 1944).
Georges Duby, "Recherches sur l'évolution des institutions judiciares pendant le Xe et le XIe siècle dans le Sud de la Bourgogne," Le Moyen Age, 52 (1946), pp. 149-95 (translation in The Chivalrous Society).
A. Koch, "L'origine de la haute et de la moyenne justice dans l'Ouest et le Nord de la France," Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiednis, 21 (1953), pp. 42-58 and "Continuité ou rupture? De la justice domaniale et abbatiale à la justice urbaine et comtale à Arras," Revue de Nord, 40 (1958), pp. 289-96.
Henri Platelle, La justice seigneuriale de l'abbaye de Saint-Amand. Son organisation judiciaire, sa procédure et sa compétence du XIe au XVIe siècle (Louvain, 1965). See also his "La violence et ses remèdes en Flandre au XIe siècle," Sacris Erudiri, 20 (1971), pp. 101-173.
J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, "The Bloodfeud of the Franks," Belletin of the John Rylands Library, 4 (1959) (reprinted in idem, The Long-Haired Kings and Other Studies in Frankish History [London, 1962], pp. 121-47) and "War and Peace in the Earlier Middle Ages," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, fifth series, 25 (1975), pp. 157-74.
P. D. King, Law and Society in the Visigothic Kingdom (Cambridge, 1972).
Hanna Vollrath, "Herrschaft und Genossenschaft im Kontext frühmittelalterlicher Rechtsbeziehungen," Historisches Jahrbuch, 102 (1982) and the rebuttal by Hans-Werner Goetz, "Herrschaft und Recht in der frühmittelalterlichen Grundherrschaft," Historisches Jahrbuch, 104 (1984), pp. 392-410.
R. R. Davies, "The Survival of the Bloodfeud in Medieval Wales," History, 54 (1969), pp. 338-57.
Peter Sawyer, "The Bloodfeud in Fact and Fiction," Tradition og Historie-Skrivning, ed. Kirsten Hastrup and Preben Meulengracht Sorensen (acta Jutlandica, 63.2; Aarhus), pp. 27-38.
William Miller, "Choosing the Avenger: Some Aspects of hte Bloodfeud in Medieval Iceland and England," Law and History Review, 1 (1983), pp. 159-205.
Stephen White, "Feuding and Peace-Making in the Touraine Around the Year 1100," Traditio, 42 (1986), pp. 195-263.
Paul Hyams, "Feud in Medieval England," The Haskins Society Journal, forthcoming.
Timothy Reuter, "Plunder and Tribute in the Carolingian Empire," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, fifth series, 35 (1985), pp. 75-94.
Baudouin de Gaiffier, "Les revindications de biens dans quelques documents hagiographiques du XIe siècle," Analecta Bollandiana 50 (1932), pp. 123-38.
Henri Platelle, "Crime et châtiment à Marchiennes. Etude sur la conception et le fonctionnement de la justice d'après les Miracles de sainte Rictrude (XIIe s.)," Sacris Erudiri 24 (1978-9), pp. 156-202.
Pierre-André Sigal, "Un aspect du culte des saints: le châtiment divin aux XIe et XIIe siècles d'après la littérature hagiographiqe du Midi du France," in La religion populaire en Languedoc du XIIIe à la moitié du XIVe siècle (Cahiers du Fanjeaux, 11; Toulouse, 1976), pp. 39-59.
Bernhard Töpfer, "Reliquienkult und Pilgerbewegung zur Zeit der Klosterreform im burgundisch-aquitanischen Gebiet," in H. Kretzschmar, ed., Vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit. Zum 65. Geburtstag von Heinrich Sprömberg (Berlin, 1956), pp. 420-39.
Karl Brunner, Oppositionelle Gruppen im karolingerreich (Vienna, 1979).
John Bossy (ed.), Disputes and Settlements. Law and Human Relations in the West (Cambridge, 1983).
Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre (eds.), The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 1986).
Christian Raynaud, La violence du moyen âge, XIII-XV siècles (Paris, 1990).
Violence et contestation au moyen âge (Actes du 114e Congrès national des sociétés savantes, Paris, 1989. Section de philologie et d'histoire jusqu'à 1610, Tome I; Paris, 1990).
Gerd Altoff, Verwandete, Freude und Getrude. Zum politischen Stellenwert der Gruppenbindungen im fröheren Mittelalter (Darmstadt, 1990).
Thomas Kuehn, Law, Family, and Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy (Chicago, 1991).
Thomas Head and Richard Landes (eds.), The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Responses in France Around the Year 1000 (Ithaca, NY, 1992).
Some important articles on dispute resolution of the "Anglo-American anthropological" school: Fredric Cheyette, "Suum cuique tribuere," French Historical Studies, 6 (1970), pp. 287-99; Barabara Rosenwein, "Feudal War and Monastic Peace: Cluniac Liturgy as Ritual Agression," Viator 2 (1971), pp. 129-57; Stephen White, "'Pactum . . . Legem Vincit et Amor Judicium.' The Settlement of Disputes by Compromise in Eleventh-Century Western France," American Journal of Legal History, 22 (1978), pp. 281-308; Stephen Weinberger, "Les conflits entre clercs et laïcs dans la Provence du XIe siècle," Annales du Midi, 92 (1980), pp. 269-79; Patrick Geary, "Vivre en conflit dans une France sans état: Typologie des mécanismes de règlement des conflits (1050-1200)," Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations, 41 (1986), pp. 1107-33; Paul Hyams, "Warranty and Good Lordship in Twelfth-Century England," Law and History Review, 2 (1987), pp. 437-503; Edward Peters, "The Death of the Subdean: Ecclesiastical Order and Disorder in Eleventh-Century Francia," in Bernard Bachrach and David Nichols (eds.), Law, Custom, and the Social Fabric in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of Bryce Lyon (Kalamazoo, MI, 1990), pp. 51-72; Thomas Head, Barbara Rosenwein, and Sharon Farmer, "Monks and Their Enemies: A Comparative Approach," Speculum, 66 (1991), pp. 764-796.
Some important articles on conflict management of the "German constitutional" school: M. Minninger, "Heinrichs III interne Freidensmassnahmen und ihre etwaigen Gegner in Lothringen," Jahrbuch für westdeutsche Landesgeschichte, 5 (1979), pp. 33-52; Johannes Fried, "Die karolingische Herrschaftsverband im 9. Jhdt," historische Zeitschrift, 2325 (1982), pp. 1-43; R. Kaiser, "Selbsthilfe und Gewaltmonoppol. Königliche reidenswahrung in Deutschland und Frankreich im mittelalter," Frühmittelalterliche Studien, 17 (1983), pp. 55-72; Gerd Altoff, "Königsherrschaft und Konflictbewältigung im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert," Frühmittelalterliche Studien, 23 (1989), pp. 265-90; Timothy Reuter, "Unruhestiftung, Fehde, Rebellion. Widerstand: Gewalt und Frieden in der Politik der Salierzeit," in S. Weinfurter, Die Salier und das Reich, 3 vols. (Sigmaringen, 1991), volume 3.
William Miller, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland (Chicago, 1990).
Theodore Andersson and William Miller, Law and Literature in Medieval Iceland: "Ljósvetninga saga" and "Valla-Ljóts saga" (Stanford, 1989).
Jesse Byock, Feud in the Icelandic Saga (Berkeley, 1982).
R. G. Poole, Viking Poems on War and Peace: a Study in Skaldis Narrative (Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations, 8; Toronto, 1991).
Some other articles on disputes in northern cultures: Theodore Andersson, "The Thief in Beowulf," Speculum, 59 (1984), pp. 493-508; Niels Lund, "Peace and Non-Peace in the Viking Age: Ottar in Biarmaland, the Rus in Byzantium, and Danes and Norwegians in England," Proceedings of the Tenth Viking Congress, ed. James Knirk (Universitetets Oldsakamlings Skrifter, new series, 9; Oslo), pp. 255-69; Patrick Wormald, "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Lawsuits," Anglo-Saxon England, 17 (1988), pp. 247-81.
Peter Browe (ed.), De ordaliis, 2 vols. (Rome, 1932-3).
La preuve, 2 vols. (Recueils de ls Société Jean Bodin pour l'histoire comparative des institutions, 17; Brussels, 1965).
Robert Bartlett, Trial by Fire and Water. The Medieval Judicial Ordeal (Oxford, 1986).
Oliver Guillot, "La participation au duel judiciaire de témoins de contidtion serve dans l'Ile-de-France au XIe siècle," Droit privé et institutions regionales. Etudes historiques offerts à Jean Yver (Paris, 1976), pp. 345-60.
Colin Morris, "Judicium Dei: The social and political significance of the ordeal in the eleventh century." Studies in Church History, 12 (1975), pp. 95-111.
Rebecca Colman, "Reason and unreason in early medieval law," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 4 (1974), pp. 571-91.
Peter Brown, "Society and the Supernatural. A Medieval Change," Daedalus, 104 (1975), pp. 133-51 (reprinted in his Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity [Berkeley, 1982], pp. 302-32).
Paul Hyams, "Trial by Ordeal: The Key to Proof in the Early Common Law," in Morris Arnold et al. (eds.), On the Laws and Customs of England. Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne (Chapel Hill, 1981), pp. 90-126.
John Baldwin, "The Intellectual Preparation for the Canon of 1215 Against Ordeals," Speculum, 36 (1961), pp. 613-36.
Charles Radding, "Evolution of Medieval Mentalities: A Cognitive-Stuctural Approach," American Historical Review, 83 (1978), pp. 577-97 and "Superstituion to Science: Nature, Fortune and the Passing of the Medieval Ordeal," American Historical REview, 84 (1979), pp. 945-69.
Talal Asad, "Notes on body pain and truth in medieval Christian ritual," Economy and Society, 12 (1983), 287-327.
Marcel Garaud, "Le droit romain dans le chartes poitevines au XIe siècle," Mélanges de droit romain dédiées à Georges Cornil, 2 vols. (Ghent, 1926), 1:399-424.
Jean Gaudemet, "Survivances romaines dans le droit de la monarchie francque du Ve au Xe siècle," Tidjschrift voor Rechtsgeschiednis, 23 (1955), pp. 149-206.
Jean Philippe Levy, "La formation de la théorie romaine des preuves," Studi in onore di Siro Solazzi (Naples, 1948), pp. 418-38.
Ramon D'Abadal i de Vinyals, "A propos du Legs visigothique en Espagne," Caratteri del secolo VII in Occidente (Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medio Evo, 5; 1958), pp. 541-86.
On the survival and use of Roman law during the middle ages, see in general the studies collected in the Ius Romanum Medii Aevi (Mudd P65 Iu7 961). Some examples are as follows: Pierre Riché, Enseignement du droit en Gaule du VIe au XIe siècle, (Ius Romanum Medii Aevi, I.5.b.b.; Milan, 1965); Pietro Vaccari, Diritto Longobardo e letteratura Longobardistica intorno al diritto Romano (Ius Romanum Medii Aevi, I.4.b.ee; Milan, 1966); Romualdo Trifone, Diritto Romano comune e diritti particolari nell'Italia meridionale (Ius Romanum Medii Aevi, V.2.d; Milan, 1962); Ole Fenger, L'influence du droit romain dans la scandinavie mediévale (Ius Romanum Medii Aevi, V.14; Milan, 1981).
Roger Bonnaud-Delamare, L'idée de la paix à l'époque Carolingienne (Paris, 1939).
---, "Fondement des institutions de paix au XIe siècle," in Mélanges d'histoire du moyen âge dédiés à la mémoire de Louis Halphen, ed. Charles-Edmond Perrin (Paris, 1951), pp. 19-26.
---, "La paix d'Amiens et de Corbie au XIe siècle," Revue du nord 38 (1956), pp. 167-78, "La paix en Flandre pendant la première croisade," Revue du nord 39 (1957), pp. 147-52.
---, "Fondement des institutions de paix au XIe siècle," in Mélanges d'histoire du Moyen Age dédiés à la mémoire de Louis Halphen, ed. Charles-Edmond Perrin (Paris, 1951), pp. 19-26.
---, "Les institutions de paix dans la province ecclésiastique de Reims au XIe siècle," Bulletin philologique et historique, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, années 1955-56 (1957), pp. 143-200.
---, "Les institutions de paix en Aquitaine au XIe siècle," Recueils de la Société Jean Bodin pour l'histoire comparative des institutions 14 (1961), pp.
Daniel Callahan, "Adémar de Chabannes et la paix de Dieu," Annales du Midi 89 (1977), pp. 21-43.
---, "The Sermons of Adémar of Chabannes and the Cult of St. Martial of Limoges," Revue Bénédictine 86 (1976), pp. 251-295.
H. E. J. Cowdrey, "The Peace and the Truce of God in the Eleventh Century," Past and Present, 46 (1970), pp. 42-67.
Georges Duby, "Les laïcs et la paix de Dieu," in I laici nella 'societas christiana' dei secoli XI e XII, (Miscellanea del Centro di studi medioevali, 5. Milan, 1968), pp. 448-61. Translation in The Chivalrous Society.
Carl Erdmann, The Origin of the Idea of Crusade, trans. Marshall Baldwin and Walter Goffart (Princeton, 1977).
Hans-Werner Goetz, "Kirchenschutz, Rechtswahrung und Reform. Zu den Zielen und zum Charakter der frühen Gottesfriedensbewegung in Frankreich," Francia 11 (1983), pp. 193-239.
Hartmut Hoffmann, Gottesfriede und Treuga Dei, Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 20 (Stuttgart, 1964).
Loren MacKinney, "The People and Public Opinion in the Eleventh-Century Peace Movement," Speculum 5 (1930), pp. 181-206.
R. I. Moore "Family, Community and Cult of the Eve of the Gregorian Reform," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, fifth series 30 (1980), pp. 49-69.
Roger Reynolds, "Odilo and the Treuga Dei in Southern Italy: A Beneventan Manuscript Fragment," Mediaeval Studies 46 (1984), pp. 450-62.
Steven Sargent "Religious Responses to Social Violence in Eleventh-Century Aquitaine," Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques 12 (1985), pp. 219-40.
Bernhard Töpfer, Volk und Kirche zur Zeit der beginnenden Gottesfriedensbewegung in Frankreich (Neue Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft, 1; Berlin, 1957).
Karl-Ferdinand Werner, "Observations sur le rôle des évêques dans le mouvement de la paix au Xe et XIe siècles," in Mediaevalia Christiana XIe-XIIe siècles. Hommages à Raymonde Foreville, ed. Coloman Viola (Paris, 1989), pp. 155-95.
Henry Maine, Ancient Law (London, 1861).
Bronislaw Malinowski, Crime and Custom in Savage Society (New York, 1926).
E. E. Evans Pritchard, The Nuer. A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of Nilotic People (Oxford, 1940).
Paul Bohannon, Justice and Judgment Among the Tiv (London, 1957).
Max Gluckman, The Judicial Process Among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) (Manchester, 1955) and Politics, Law, and Ritual in Tribal Society (Oxford, 1965).
Laura Nader (ed.), Law in Culture and Society (Chicago, 1969).
P. H. Gulliver, Social Control in an African Society: Neighbors and Networks (Berkeley, 1971).
Maurice Bloch (ed.), Political Language and Oratory in Traditional Society (New York, 1975).
Simon Roberts (ed.), Law and Family in Africa (The Hague, 1977).
J. Balck-Michaud, Cohesive Force: Feud in the Mediettanean and the Middle East (London, 1975).
Laura Nader, The Disputing Process: Law in Ten Societies (New York, 1978).
P. H. Gulliver (ed.), Disputes and Negotiations: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (New York, 1979).
Clifford Geertz, "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight," in The Interpretation of Cultures (New York, 1973), pp. 412-444 and "Local Knowledge: Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective," in Local Knowledge. Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (New York, 1983), pp. 167-234.
J. L. Comaroff and Simon Roberts, Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute in an African Context (Chicago, 1981).
Richard Abel, The Politics of Informal Justice (New York, 1982).
Ronald Dworking, Law's Empire (Cambridge, 1986).
Allan Grimshaw (ed.), Conflict Talk (Cambridge, 1989).
John Conley and William O'Barr, Rules versus Relationships. The Ethnography of Legal Discourse (Chicago, 1990).
Gregory Leyh (ed.), Legal Hermeneutics: History, Theory, and Practice (1991).
Robert Post (ed.), Law and the Order of Culture (1991).
David Cannadine and Simon Price (eds.), Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies (Cambridge, 1992).
Marc Howard Ross, The Culture of Conflict: Interpretations and Interests in Comparative Perspective (New Haven, 1993) and The Management of Conflict: Interpretations and Interests in Comparative Perspective (New Haven, 1993).
Finally, a fascinating set of stories illustrating the problems of dispute in monastic communities may be found in two texts, treating consecutive periods, from the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds: The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond, ed. and trans. H. E. Butler (London, 1949) and The Chronicle of the Election of Hugh Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds and Later Bishop of Ely, ed. and trans. R. M. Thomson (Oxford, 1974).