Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe.

Davies, Jonathan.

Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe. - 1st ed. - Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013. ©2013. - 1 online resource (277 pages)

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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Interpersonal and Ritual Violence -- 1 Student Violence in Fifteenth-Century Paris and Oxford -- 2 The Politics of Transition: Pillaging and the 1527 Sack of Rome -- 3 Death on the Danube -- 4 Plague, Propaganda and Prophetic Violence in Sixteenth-Century Lyon -- Part II: War -- 5 Rethinking the Peace of Westphalia: Toward a Theory of Early-Modern Warfare -- 6 'Broken Verses across a Bloodied Land' -- 7 Peter Paul Rubens: Broker of Peace, Painter of Violence -- Part III: Justice -- 8 Violence, Rites and Social Regulation in the Venetian Terra Firma in the Sixteenth Century -- 9 'Una causa civile': Vendetta Violence and Governing Elites in Early-Modern Modena -- Bibliography -- Index.

Interest in the history of violence has increased dramatically over the last ten years and recent studies have demonstrated the productive potential for further inquiry in this field. The early modern period is particularly ripe for further investigation because of the pervasiveness of violence. Certain countries may have witnessed a drop in the number of recorded homicides during this period, yet homicide is not the only marker of a violent society. This volume presents a range of contributions that look at various aspects of violence from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, from student violence and misbehaviour in fifteenth-century Oxford and Paris to the depiction of war wounds in the English civil wars.

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