This chapter presents a number of contact zones in the spectrum of violence, zones around which the fears, anxieties, concerns and aspirations provoked by instances of violence and their representation were concentrated. I discuss the following scenes of violence: The War Against Time; Apocalypse; The Anxiety of Remembrance; Abomination; The Nonhuman World; Spectacle. These zones do not constitute categories of violence but, like violence itself, are porous and mimetic. The temporal focus of the survey covers some six centuries, from the pre-Islamic sixth century to the twelfth century and the Crusades.