The Cambridge World History of Violence

Editors

Matthew S. Gordon, University of Miami
Matthew Gordon is Professor of History at the University of Miami. He is the author of The Breaking of a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra (2000) and The Rise of Islam (2005); co-editor of Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History (with Kathryn A. Hain, 2017) and co-editor and translator of The Works of Ibn Wādih al-Ya'qūbī: An English Translation (with Chase F. Robinson, Everett K. Rowson and Michael Fishbein, 2017).

Richard W. Kaeuper, University of Rochester, New York
Richard W. Kaeuper is Professor of History at the University of Rochester, New York. He has published widely on justice and public order, and more recently on chivalry, in medieval Europe. Recent books include Medieval Chivalry (Cambridge, 2016) and Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry (2009). A collection of his essays, Kings, Knights, and Bankers: The Collected Articles of Richard Kaeuper (edited by Christopher Guyol), was published in 2016.

Harriet Zurndorfer, Universiteit Leiden
Harriet Zurndorfer is affiliated with the Leiden Institute for Area Studies in the Faculty of Humanities, Universiteit Leiden. She is the author of Change and Continuity in Chinese Local History (1989), China Bibliography: A Research Guide to Reference Works about China Past and Present (1995); and has published more than 200 learned articles and reviews. She is also founder, and editor of the journal Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China, published since 1999.

Contributors

Nicola Di Cosmo, Don J. Wyatt, Jürgen Paul, John France, Anders Winroth, Jonathan Skaff, David Spafford, Christian Lange, Hannah Skoda, Morten Oxenbøll, Peter Lorge, Justine Firnhaber-Baker, David Potter, Teresa Shawcross, Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Sara M. Butler, Tim Barrett, Martin Repp, Ute Schüren, Wolfgang Gabbert, Susanna A. Throop, Dick Kaeuper, Asma Afsaruddin, Christine Caldwell Ames, John Haldon, Andrew K. Scherer, Bret Hinsch, Hitomi Tonomura, Sheila Blair, James Montgomery, Albrecht Classen, Mitchell B. Merback