Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Early Modern Themes
New Approaches
Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Early Modern Themes
ISBN: 978-1-041-06174-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
In early modern Europe violence was a constant; both in domestic and international wars and at the more local level violence was common practice in negotiating social relations. The Violent Early Modern: New Approaches captures the state of the art in early modern violence studies, a field that has centered political violence, social movements, war, and ritual. Building on that groundwork, this collection foregrounds newer humanist questions — race, gender, and the interplay of popular and elite cultures — while grounding each chapter firmly in original source material.
The volume is organized into four sections: Violence and Culture, Violence and Justice, Violence and Gender, and Violence and the Other, together demonstrating the manifold arenas of early modern life that violence persistently and deliberately shaped. The volume marks a genuine shift in the field: not simply an update, but a reframing of what early modern violence studies can ask. The chapters in each section are based on original interpretations of archival sources, print materials, or art and objects, and place these interpretations and arguments within the relevant historiographies to show how early modern violence studies is rooted in multidisciplinary traditions of scholarship. Due to its interdisciplinarity, this volume broadens the field’s coverage of early modern violence as a whole, and with its strong mix of senior and junior scholars, represents not only the state of the field at this moment but also its future.
Designed for students and scholars alike, the volume offers both an accessible entry point for those new to the field and a valuable reference for academics seeking a refresher or update — filling a real gap, as no broad reader has captured the field's current state in some time.
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Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
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List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Violent Early Modern
Amanda Madden
Part 1: Violence and Culture
Chapter One: “Thinking about Thinking about Violence” Thomas Cohen
Chapter Two: “Civility, Disorder, and Moral Panic: Upper-class Violence in Augustan London” Nicholas Rogers
Chapter Three: “Experience of Violence and Body Images: The Assaulted Body in the Personal Writings of the French Pastor Pierre Du Moulin (1568-1658)” Marie-Clarte Lagree
Part 2: Violence and Justice
Chapter Four: “Criminal Violence, Appeal to the Courts, and Christian Ideals: Some Reflections on the European Anti-judicial Tradition, 1500-1700” Paolo Broggio
Chapter Five: “Judicial Violence, Spectacle, and the Female Body in Flanders, 1400-1500” Mireille Pardon
Chapter Six: “High Crime in Venice: Investigating the Ghost Archive of the State Inquisitors, 1550-1650” Rachel Midura
Chapter Seven: “Papal State Capture: Spolia and Violence during the Vacant See and Possesso” Jennifer DeSilva
Part 3: Violence and Gender
Chapter Eight: “Defining Sexual Violence in 18th-century Venice” Celeste McNamara
Chapter Nine: “Theatrical Justice: Women Navigating Abuse and Murder in
Seventeenth-Century Spain” Elizabeth Cruz Peterson
Chapter Ten: “Violent Words in Renaissance Italy: A Case Study from an Unpublished Invective
by Francesco Diedo” Brian Maxson
Part 4: Violence and the Other
Chapter Eleven: “The Erotics of Obedience: Race and Sexual Transgression in Fifteenth-Century
Italy” Laura Ingallinella
Chapter Twelve: “Law, Punishment, and Slavery; State Violence and the Rule of Law in
Eighteenth Century Jamaica”
Christos Giannatos
Chapter Thirteen: “‘Gore and Glory’: Rewriting the 1527 Sack of Rome”
Jessica Goethals
Conclusion: Violence and Justice as Historical Forces
Colin Rose
Index
