A history of violence : from the end of the Middle Ages to the present / Robert Muchembled translated by Jean Birrell
- Bib ID:
- 5781661
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Muchembled, Robert, 1944-
- Description:
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- Cambridge : Polity, 2012
- vi, 377 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780745647463
- 0745647464
- 9780745647470
- 0745647472
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 What is violence?
- Is violence innate?
- Violence and manliness
- Semen and blood: a history of honour
- ch. 2 Violence: seven centuries of spectacular decline
- The reliability of the crime figures
- Seven centuries of decline
- The `making' of young men
- ch. 3 The youth festivals of violence (thirteenth to seventeenth centuries)
- A culture of violence
- Violent festivities and brutal games
- Youth violence
- ch. 4 The urban peace at the end of the Middle Ages
- The pacificatory towns
- Controlling the young
- Violence costs dear
- ch. 5 Cain and Medea: homicide and the construction of sexed genders (1500
- 1650)
- A judicial revolution
- In pursuit of the ungrateful son: the spread of the blood taboo
- Medea, the guilty mother
- ch. 6 The noble duel and popular revolt: the metamorphoses of violence
- The duel, a French exception
- Noble youths sharpen their swords
- Popular violence and the frustrations of youth
- Contents note continued: ch. 7 Violence tamed (1650
- 1960)
- Murder is forbidden
- The civilizing town
- Violence and changing concepts of honour in the countryside
- ch. 8 Mortal thrills and crime fiction (sixteenth to twentieth centuries)
- The devil, assuredly: the birth of crime fiction
- From bloodthirsty murderer to well-loved bandit
- Blood and ink
- ch. 9 The return of the gangs: contemporary adolescence and violence
- Death in paradise
- Juvenile delinquency
- `Rebel without a cause', or `eternal recurrence'.
- Notes:
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- First published in French as Une histoire da la violence, c2008.
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Some texts in French.
- Subject:
- Violence -- History -- Europe
- Other authors/contributors:
- Birrell, Jean
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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