The Cambridge World History of Violence

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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 Wdih al-Ya'qb: An English Translation (with Chase F. Robinson Everett K. Rowson and Michael Fishbein 2017). 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 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.