Introduction: Confronting conflict in early modern Europe / Stephen Cummins and Laura Kounine
[1] Rethinking disputes and settlements
Rethinking disputes and settlements : how historians can use legal anthropology / John Jordan
At the crossroads of feud and law : settling disputes in early modern Tuscany / Marco Cavarzere
[2] Mediation, reconciliation, coexistence
"Types" of peacemakers : exploring the authority and self-perception of the early modern papacy / Christian Schneider
Mediation and reconciliation among seventeenth-century French high aristocrats / Christian Kühner
Containing confessional conflict in the military : the Holy Roman Empire c. 1650 / Nikolas Funke
Colonial conflicts : factional disputes in two Portuguese settlements in Asia / Tara Alberts
[3] Law, courts and conflict
Contesting public executions in Paris towards the end of the Wars of Religion / Tom Hamilton
Contested coexistence : lay-clerical disputes and their settlement in the late medieval Hungarian countryside / Gabriella Erdélyi
The witch on trial : narratives of conflict and community in early modern Germany / Laura Kounine
Forgiving crimes in early modern Naples / Stephen Cummins
Afterword / Stuart Carroll.