Introduction: confronting conflict in early modern Europe, Stephen Cummins and Laura Kounine . Part I 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 . Part II Mediation, Reconciliation, Coexistence: 'Types' of peacemakers: exploring the authority and self-perception of the early modern papacy, Christian Schneider ; Mediation and reconciliation among 17th-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 . Part III 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 ; Index. 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 ; Index.