Screen LibraryCultures of violence Interpersonal violence in historical perspective /
Thinkers and historians have long perceived violence and its control as integral to the very idea of 'Western Civilization'. Focusing on interpersonal violence and the huge role it played in human affairs in the post-medieval West, this timely collection brings together the latest interdis...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Thinkers and historians have long perceived violence and its control as integral to the very idea of 'Western Civilization'. Focusing on interpersonal violence and the huge role it played in human affairs in the post-medieval West, this timely collection brings together the latest interdisciplinary and historical research in the field. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | 288 p. |
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9780230019454 9780230591820 : 0230591825 : |
| CLC: | K01 |
| 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 |