Thinkers and historians have long perceived violence and its control as integral to the very idea of 'Western Civilization'. While there is an enduring fascination with war and state violence - shelf upon bookshop shelf are lined with the arcania of military history, and degree programmes are now devoted to the study of genocide - historians have been more reticent about studying interpersonal violence, despite the huge role it plays in human affairs. This timely collection, which focuses on the post-medieval West, brings together the latest interdisciplinary and historical research in the field.
'Offers twelve stimulating and generally meticulously researched essays on topics as diverse as female dismemberment in Aztec rituals, rituals of rebellion in early modern England, vengeance in sixteenth-century France, kidnapping for ransom in the Mediterranean during the long nineteenth century, beheadings in early modern Ireland, and aerial warfare between Britain and Germany during the two world wars.' - Robert Gerwarth, English Historical Review
Introduction; S.Carroll
PART I: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES
Female Dismemberment and Decapitation: Gendered Understandings of Power in Aztec Ritual; C.Dodds
Religious Languages of Violence: Some Reflections on the Reading of Extremes; B.Weisbrod
Conceptualizing Cultures of Violence and Cultural Change; J.Carter Wood
PART II: EARLY MODERN PERSPECTIVES
Collective Violence, Social drama and Rituals of Rebellion in Late Medieval and Early modern England; A.Wood
Vengence in Sixteenth-Century France; M.Nassiet
At the Sign of the Head: the Currency of Beheading in Early Modern Ireland; P.Palmer
Duelling and the Court of Chivalry in Early Stuart England; R.Cust & A.Hopper
PART III: MODERN PERSPECTIVES
Popular Violence in the French Revlolution: Revolt, Retribution and the Slide to State Terror; D.Andress
Avoiding the Ultimate Act of Violence: Mediterranean Bandits and the Kidnapping for Ransom, 1815-1914; M.Blinkhorn
Swords and Daggers: Class Conceptions of Interpersonal Violence in Liberal Italy; S.C.Hughes
Race, Class and Maritime Authority in Late Victorian England: the Surprising Cases of Charles Arthur (1888) and Bagwahn Jassiwara (1891); M.J.Wiener
From 'Duels in the Clouds' to 'Exterminating Attacks': Legitimizing Aerial Warfare in Britain and Germany, 1814-1945; B.Rieger
STUART CARROLL is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York, UK, and author of Blood and Violence in Early Modern France. He is twice winner of the Nancy Roelker prize for the best essay on early modern French history and currently working on neighbourliness in Europe during the Reformation.
Description
Thinkers and historians have long perceived violence and its control as integral to the very idea of 'Western Civilization'. While there is an enduring fascination with war and state violence - shelf upon bookshop shelf are lined with the arcania of military history, and degree programmes are now devoted to the study of genocide - historians have been more reticent about studying interpersonal violence, despite the huge role it plays in human affairs. This timely collection, which focuses on the post-medieval West, brings together the latest interdisciplinary and historical research in the field.
Reviews
'Offers twelve stimulating and generally meticulously researched essays on topics as diverse as female dismemberment in Aztec rituals, rituals of rebellion in early modern England, vengeance in sixteenth-century France, kidnapping for ransom in the Mediterranean during the long nineteenth century, beheadings in early modern Ireland, and aerial warfare between Britain and Germany during the two world wars.' - Robert Gerwarth, English Historical Review
Contents
Introduction; S.Carroll
PART I: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES
Female Dismemberment and Decapitation: Gendered Understandings of Power in Aztec Ritual; C.Dodds
Religious Languages of Violence: Some Reflections on the Reading of Extremes; B.Weisbrod
Conceptualizing Cultures of Violence and Cultural Change; J.Carter Wood
PART II: EARLY MODERN PERSPECTIVES
Collective Violence, Social drama and Rituals of Rebellion in Late Medieval and Early modern England; A.Wood
Vengence in Sixteenth-Century France; M.Nassiet
At the Sign of the Head: the Currency of Beheading in Early Modern Ireland; P.Palmer
Duelling and the Court of Chivalry in Early Stuart England; R.Cust & A.Hopper
PART III: MODERN PERSPECTIVES
Popular Violence in the French Revlolution: Revolt, Retribution and the Slide to State Terror; D.Andress
Avoiding the Ultimate Act of Violence: Mediterranean Bandits and the Kidnapping for Ransom, 1815-1914; M.Blinkhorn
Swords and Daggers: Class Conceptions of Interpersonal Violence in Liberal Italy; S.C.Hughes
Race, Class and Maritime Authority in Late Victorian England: the Surprising Cases of Charles Arthur (1888) and Bagwahn Jassiwara (1891); M.J.Wiener
From 'Duels in the Clouds' to 'Exterminating Attacks': Legitimizing Aerial Warfare in Britain and Germany, 1814-1945; B.Rieger
Authors
STUART CARROLL is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York, UK, and author of Blood and Violence in Early Modern France. He is twice winner of the Nancy Roelker prize for the best essay on early modern French history and currently working on neighbourliness in Europe during the Reformation.
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