ISBN:
9780191898280
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (288 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.60949120902
Keywords:
Geschichte 800-1500
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Violence / Iceland / History / To 1500
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Violence / Research / Methodology
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Sagas / History and criticism
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Gewalt
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Risiko
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Island
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Island
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Gewalt
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Risiko
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Geschichte 800-1500
Abstract:
Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject 'violence' itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we employ this term? How may we approach the category 'violence' in a specifically historical way, and what is it that we explain when we write its history? Astonishingly, such questions are seldom even voiced, much less debated, in the historical literature. This book lays out a cultural history model for understanding violence. Using interdisciplinary tools, it argues that violence is a positively constructed asset, deployed along three principal axes - power, signification, and risk.
Note:
This edition also issued in print: 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780198866046.001.0001
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198866046.001.0001
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
