Blood and violence in early modern France /

French manners and civility were the model for European civilization, while feud is associated with backward societies. Yet in France thousands of men died in duels in which the supposed rules of honour were regularly flouted. In this detailed and original book Stuart Carroll explores the nature of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carroll, Stuart, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
Temas:
1600-1699
Violence > France > History > 17th century.
Violence > France > Histoire > 17e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Violence
Fehde
Gewalt
France > History > 17th century.
France > Histoire > 17e siècle.
France
Frankreich
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. The structure of vindicatory violence
  • The origins of dispute : blood and earth
  • The origins of dispute : status and honour
  • Honours and prerogatives
  • Escalation : from verbal duel to vindicatory exchange
  • Conspiracy
  • Combat
  • The rage of the gods
  • II. Violence and society
  • Justice and the law
  • Peace
  • Women, sex, and vindicatory violence
  • III. Violence and the polity
  • Quantifying violence
  • The crisis of the religious wars
  • Violence and royal authority in the seventeenth century
  • Solutions.

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