Verbal Representations of Violence
Lecture Powerpoint
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Seminar Questions
- How far did the representation of early modern violence vary in different verbal genres?
- To what extent did the verbal representation of violence vary across Europe and over time?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of verbal sources for the understanding of violence in early modern Europe?
Required Reading
All students should read three of the following items:
- Cohen, Thomas V., and Elizabeth S. Cohen, (Toronto, 1993). [Please read the Introduction and Chapter Three 'Octavia and Her Music Teacher']
- Darnton, Robert, 鈥楶easants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose鈥� in Robert Darnton, (New York, 1984), pp. 9-72.
- Kane, S.A., ',' Criticism 38 (1996), 219-238.
- Walker, Garthine, 鈥樷��, Gender and History 10 (1998), 1-25.
E-Resources
- Kyd, Thomas,
- Shakespeare, William,
- [For BBC podcasts which use these records click ]
Further Reading
(see also the bibliography for Justice)
Arnade, Peter, and Walter Prevenier, Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries (Ithaca, NY, 2015)
Becker, Lucinda M., (Aldershot, 2003)
Cholakian, Patricia Francis, Rape and Writing in the 贬别辫迟补尘茅谤辞苍 of Marguerite de Navarre (Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1991)
Clark, Sandra, (Basingstoke, 2003)
Covington, Sarah, '"Broken Verses across a Bloodied Land": Violence and the Limits of Language in the English Civil War', in Jonathan Davies (ed.), (Farnham, 2013), pp. 127-149.
Davis, Natalie Zemon, Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France (Cambridge, 1987)
Feather, Jennifer, and Catherine E. Thomas (eds), Violent Masculinities: Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts and Culture (Basingstoke, 2013)
Feather, Jennifer, (Basingstoke, 2011)
Foakes, R.A., (Cambridge, 2003)
Goethals, Jessica, '', Italian Studies 68/2 (2013), 175-201.
von Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel, , trans. Michael Mitchell (Sawtry, 1999)
Hale, J.R., '', Past and Present 51 (1971), 3-26
Harari, Yuval N., Renaissance Military Memoirs: War, History, and Identity, 1450-1600 (Woodbridge, 2004)
Harden, Faith S., Arms and Letters: Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain (Toronto, 2020)
H盲rter, Karl, '', European Journal of Criminology 11/2 (2013), 142-68
Herrick, Marvin, (Urbana, 1965)
Kaiser, Daniel H., 鈥�,鈥� Kritika 3/2 (2002), 197-216.
King, Emily L., (Cornell, 2019)
Kirch, Miriam Hall, 'Death on the Danube', in Jonathan Davies (ed.), (Farnham, 2013), pp. 61-81.
Larson, Donald R., (Cambridge, Mass., 1977)
Low, Jennifer A., (Basingstoke, 2003)
McIlvenna, Una, Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 (New York, 2022)
MacMillan, Ken, (ed.), Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England (London, 2015)
Marshall, Cynthia, (Baltimore, 2002)
Martin, Randall, (London, 2012)
Martin, Randall, ed., (Aldershot, 2005)
Mazzoni, Cristina, '', Annali d'Italianistica 35 (2017), 177-92.
Medici, Lorenzino de鈥�, , trans. Andrew Brown, with a foreword by Tim Parks (London, 2004)
Mortimer, Geoff, Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48 (Basingstoke, 2002)
Murrin, Michael, History and Warfare in Renaissance Epic (Chicago, 1994)
Robertson, Elizabeth, and Christine M. Rose, eds, (Basingstoke, 2001)
Royer, Katherine, The English Execution Narrative, 1200鈥�1700 (Abingdon, 2013)
Salzberg, Rosa, and Massimo Rospocher, 'Murder Ballads' in Trevor Dean and K. J. P. Lowe, eds, (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 164-186
Sharpe, James J., '', Crime, History and Societies 16/1 (2012), 25-45.
Simkin, Stevie, ed., (Basingstoke, 2001)
Solga, Kim, Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts (Basingstoke, 2009)
Symonds, Deborah A., Weep Not For Me: Women, Ballads and Infanticide in Early Modern Scotland (Pennslyvania, 1997)
Taylor, Scott K., Honor and Violence in Golden Age Spain (New Haven, 2008)
Terry-Fritsch, Allie, and Erin Felicia Labbie, eds, Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Farnham, 2012)
Vega, Lope de, 'Punishment Without Revenge,' in Lope de Vega, , ed. and trans. Gwynne Edwards (Oxford, 1999), pp. 169-265.
Wade, Mara R. (ed.), (Amsterdam, 2013)
Wilson, Peter H., 'Perceptions of Violence in the Early Modern Communications Revolution: the Case of the Thirty Years' War 1618-1648', in Athina Karatzogianni (ed.), (London, 2013), 13-29.
Zitzlsperger, Ulrike, (ed.), Gender, Agency and Violence: European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013)
