ISBN:
9781317178064
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (277 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Davies, Jonathan Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe
DDC:
303.62094
Abstract:
Interest in the history of violence has increased dramatically over the last ten years and recent studies have demonstrated the productive potential for further inquiry in this field. The early modern period is particularly ripe for further investigation because of the pervasiveness of violence. Certain countries may have witnessed a drop in the number of recorded homicides during this period, yet homicide is not the only marker of a violent society. This volume presents a range of contributions that look at various aspects of violence from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, from student violence and misbehaviour in fifteenth-century Oxford and Paris to the depiction of war wounds in the English civil wars. The book is divided into three sections, each clustering chapters around the topics of interpersonal and ritual violence, war, and justice and the law. Informed by the disciplines of anthropology, criminology, the history of art, literary studies, and sociology, as well as history, the contributors examine all forms of violence including manslaughter, assault, rape, riots, war and justice. Previous studies have tended to emphasise long-term trends in violent behaviour but one must always be attentive to the specificity of violence and these essays reveal what it meant in particular places and at particular times
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Interpersonal and Ritual Violence -- 1 Student Violence in Fifteenth-Century Paris and Oxford -- 2 The Politics of Transition: Pillaging and the 1527 Sack of Rome -- 3 Death on the Danube -- 4 Plague, Propaganda and Prophetic Violence in Sixteenth-Century Lyon -- Part II: War -- 5 Rethinking the Peace of Westphalia: Toward a Theory of Early-Modern Warfare -- 6 âBroken Verses across a Bloodied Landâ -- 7 Peter Paul Rubens: Broker of Peace, Painter of Violence -- Part III: Justice -- 8 Violence, Rites and Social Regulation in the Venetian Terra Firma in the Sixteenth Century -- 9 âUna causa civileâ: Vendetta Violence and Governing Elites in Early-Modern Modena -- Bibliography
