Fear of crime in late medieval France / Claude Gauvard -- Needful things / Louise O. Fradenburg -- In defense of revenge / William Ian Miller -- "The doom of resoun": accommodating lay interpretation in late medieval England / James H. Landman -- Chaucer's hard cases / Elizabeth Fowler -- The "Unfaithful wife" in medieval spanish literature and law / Louise Mirrer -- The rights of medieval english women: crime and the issue of representation / Christopher Cannon -- Violence against women in fifteenth-century France and the Burgundian state / Walter Prevenier -- The host, the law, and the ambiguous space of medieval London taverns / Barbara A. Hanawalt -- Slaughter and romance: hunting reserves in late medieval England / William Perry Marvin