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.