Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation - Hardcoverby Paul R. Hyams (Author) Duels and bloodfeuds have long been regarded as essentially Continental phenomena, counter to the staid and orderly British ways of settling differences. In this surprising work of social and legal history, Paul R. Hyams reveals a post Conquest England not all that different from the realms across the Channel. Drawing on a wide range of texts and the long history of argument about these texts, Hyams shatters the myth of