The Discourse of Interpersonal Violence
Lecture Powerpoint
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Seminar Questions
- To what extent did interpersonal violence constitute 'the common thread of human relations and of the sociability characteristic of various groups in the population' (Robert Muchembled)?
- How did responses to different forms of interpersonal violence vary in early modern Europe?
Required Reading
All students should read
- Carroll, Stuart, (Cambridge, 2023), Introduction, pp. 1-20.
AND EITHER
- Hall, Dianne, and Elizabeth Malcolm, 'Sexual and Family Violence in Europe', in Robert J. Antony, Stuart Carroll, and Caroline Dodds Pennock, eds, (Cambridge, 2020), pp. 274-91.
OR
- Schwerhoff, Gerd, Benjamin Seebr枚ker, Alexander K盲stner, and Wiebke Voigt, '', Continuity and Change 36 (2021), 1-32.
E-Resources
- [A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names.]
- [This project provides abstracts, calendars and transcript of the surviving material relating to 738 cases heard in the Court of Chivalry (otherwise known as the Court of Honour or the Earl Marshal鈥檚 Court) between 1634 and 1640]
- Sharpe, J. and Dickinson, R., Violence in Early Modern England : a Regional Survey, 1600-1800; Cheshire [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], July 2002. SN: 4429.
Further Reading
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Anglo, Sydney, The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe (New Haven, 2000)
Arnade, Peter, and Walter Prevenier, Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries (Ithaca, NY, 2015)
Astarita, Tommaso, Village Justice: Community, Family, and Popular Culture in Early Modern Italy (Baltimore, 1999)
Bailey, Joanne, and Loreen Giese, '', The History of the Family 18 (2013), 289-305
Barahona, Renato, (Toronto, 2003)
Bibboni, Francesco, '', in Lorenzino de' Medici, Apology for a Murder, trans. Andrew Brown, with a foreword by Tim Parks (London, 2004), pp. 21-44. [For what actually happened, see Stefano Dall'Aglio, , trans. Donald Weinstein (New Haven, 2015), Chapter Two]
Boes, Maria R., (Farnham, 2013)
Bowen, Lloyd, (Woodbridge, 2021)
Carroll, Stuart, ed., (Basingstoke, 2007)
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Cronin, John Jeremiah, '', Crime, History and Societies 17/2 (2013), 47-69.
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Dall'Aglio, Stefano, , trans. Donald Weinstein (New Haven, 2015)
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