Blood and violence in early modern France / Stuart Carroll.

Author/creator Carroll, Stuart, 1965-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Description369 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [334]-349) and index.
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LCCN 2006012187
ISBN0199290458 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780199290451

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