Please take note: This collection of web links with illustrations was assembled as a resource for the academic study of violence in the Middle Ages. To study violence critically, to examine its causes, effects, and consequences, however, is the first crucial step forward in limiting, if not eliminating it altogether. For a critical examination of violence and what to do about it, see the comments by Ortega y Gassett and Hannah Arendt. I also recommend the essays published by David McReynolds and James W. Prescott
Battle Scene (stained glass window)
Massacre of Christian Prisoners during a Crusade
Naval Battles Battles of the Hundred Year’s War Further Battles
Violent scenes in the Manessische Liederhandschrift:
tournament (no. 8), war (no. 9), two knights (no. 13), brutality of war (no. 18), murder (no. 61), siege (no. 73 75), hunt (no. 105)
Executions Executions II Saints Martyrdom
Medieval Torture Instruments (careful, a lot of myths connected with this)
Wife beating husband Husband beating wife Love and Violence
Lancelot Braves Terror of Monastery Pierpont Morgan Lib., FR805, fol. 135r
King Marc stabs Tristan with poisoned lance, Vienna, Codex 2537, fol. 474
Misericords, Exeter Cathedral
Violence in Hell Warning of Hell Scenes of Hell Scenes of Hell II
Bibliography on “Rechtsgeschichte” (mostly German titles on crime and justice in the late Middle Ages)