Vendetta essays on honor and revenge (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Pietas as vengeance: Ovid's Metamorphoses / Meredith Prince -- The point of revenge: questioning chivalry in La vengeance raguidel and Les merveilles de rigomer / Kristin L. Burr -- The dangers of saying no: vengeance and the besieged lady in Chrétien's Chevalier au lion and Old French romance / Kathy Krause -- The goddess Nature's revenge and human nature in the medieval Spanish Libro de Alexandre / Z. David Zuwiyya -- Reigning revenge in the Poem of El Cid / Julio Hernando -- Resemblance, reality, and revenge: Nicola Van Houbranken's Portrait of François Rivière / Anne Betty Weinshenker -- Vendetta and veritas in Diderot's Madame de la Pommeraye and Bresson's Les dames du Bois de Boulogne / Marcelline Block -- For better or for worse, till death do us part: honor in Italy / Giovanna Summerfield -- "Chi cerca trova e chi seguita vince": seeking revenge in Verga's Cavalleria rusticana and Pirandello's Liolà / Susan Amatangelo