Stuart Carroll

Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009287357
• Artikelnr.: 70912464

Autorenporträt

Stuart Carroll is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of York. He is one of the editors of the Cambridge World History of Violence (2020). His other publications include Blood and Violence in Early Modern France (2006) and Martyrs and Murderers: the Guise Family and the Making of Europe, which won the J. Russell Major prize of the American Historical Association in 2011. He has also been awarded the Sixteenth Century Society's Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize an unprecedented four times.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Italy
1. The use of the law
2. The politics of vendetta
3. The culture of vendetta
4. The decline of vendetta
Germany
5. Rethinking the feud
6. The culture of enmity in Early Modern Germany
7. Sühne: the theory and practice of peace-making
France
8. Village politics and vendetta
9. Peace and justice under the absolute monarchy
England
10. Justice and violence
11. Enmity in Early Modern England
Comparisons
12. The experience of enmity
13. Enmity and sacred space
14. Living with the enemy.