Blood and violence in early modern France
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- I. The structure of vindicatory violence
- The origins of dispute : blood and earth
- The origins of dispute : status and honour
- Honours and prerogatives
- Escalation : from verbal duel to vindicatory exchange
- Conspiracy
- Combat
- The rage of the gods
- II. Violence and society
- Justice and the law
- Peace
- Women, sex, and vindicatory violence
- III. Violence and the polity
- Quantifying violence
- The crisis of the religious wars
- Violence and royal authority in the seventeenth century
- Solutions.