Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500–1800

Julius R Ruff author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:4th Oct '01

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A survey of violence in western Europe from the Reformation to the French Revolution.

This clear, accessible and engaging book offers students a broad-ranging survey of violence in western Europe from the Reformation to the French Revolution. Topics covered include the role of the state in controlling violence; interpersonal violence; violence and its impact on women; infanticide; and rioting.A broad-ranging survey of violence in western Europe from the Reformation to the French Revolution. Julius Ruff summarises a huge body of research and provides readers with a clear, accessible, and engaging introduction to the topic of violence in early modern Europe. His book, enriched with fascinating illustrations, underlines the fact that modern preoccupations with the problem of violence are not unique, and that late medieval and early modern European societies produced levels of violence that may have exceeded those in the most violent modern inner-city neighbourhoods. Julius Ruff examines the role of the emerging state in controlling violence; the roots and forms of the period's widespread interpersonal violence; violence and its impact on women; infanticide; and rioting. This book, in the successful textbook series New Approaches to European History, will be of great value to students of European history, criminal justice sciences, and anthropology.

'… his book provides valuable evidence for those psychologists interested in a broader perspective on human violence than psychology alone can provide.' The Psychologist
'This interesting book is a comprehensive synthesis of various historiographies, brought together for the first time in an extended treatment of the subject of violence in early modern Europe.' History

ISBN: 9780521591195

Dimensions: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm

Weight: 550g

284 pages