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Blood and violence in early modern France
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Title
Blood and violence in early modern France / Stuart Carroll.
ISBN
0199290458 (alk. paper)
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
369 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-349) and index.
Contents
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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