Aspects Of Violence In Renaissance Europe

Author : Dr Jonathan Davies
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472402226

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Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe by Dr Jonathan Davies Pdf

Interest in the history of violence has increased dramatically over the last ten years and recent studies have demonstrated the productive potential for further inquiry in this field. The early modern period is particularly ripe for further investigation because of the pervasiveness of violence. Certain countries may have witnessed a drop in the number of recorded homicides during this period, yet homicide is not the only marker of a violent society. This volume presents a range of contributions that look at various aspects of violence from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, from student violence and misbehaviour in fifteenth-century Oxford and Paris to the depiction of war wounds in the English civil wars. The book is divided into three sections, each clustering chapters around the topics of interpersonal and ritual violence, war, and justice and the law. Informed by the disciplines of anthropology, criminology, the history of art, literary studies, and sociology, as well as history, the contributors examine all forms of violence including manslaughter, assault, rape, riots, war and justice. Previous studies have tended to emphasise long-term trends in violent behaviour but one must always be attentive to the specificity of violence and these essays reveal what it meant in particular places and at particular times.

Author : Jonathan Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317178064

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Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe by Jonathan Davies Pdf

Interest in the history of violence has increased dramatically over the last ten years and recent studies have demonstrated the productive potential for further inquiry in this field. The early modern period is particularly ripe for further investigation because of the pervasiveness of violence. Certain countries may have witnessed a drop in the number of recorded homicides during this period, yet homicide is not the only marker of a violent society. This volume presents a range of contributions that look at various aspects of violence from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, from student violence and misbehaviour in fifteenth-century Oxford and Paris to the depiction of war wounds in the English civil wars. The book is divided into three sections, each clustering chapters around the topics of interpersonal and ritual violence, war, and justice and the law. Informed by the disciplines of anthropology, criminology, the history of art, literary studies, and sociology, as well as history, the contributors examine all forms of violence including manslaughter, assault, rape, riots, war and justice. Previous studies have tended to emphasise long-term trends in violent behaviour but one must always be attentive to the specificity of violence and these essays reveal what it meant in particular places and at particular times.

Author : Colin Rose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108498067

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A Renaissance of Violence by Colin Rose Pdf

This in-depth analysis of homicide patterns in seventeenth-century Italy explores the social contexts behind a sharp rise in interpersonal violence.

Author : Jonathan Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Justice, Administration of
ISBN : 1315568098

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Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe by Jonathan Davies Pdf

Author : John Rigby Hale,Hale
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0773517650

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War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450-1620 by John Rigby Hale,Hale Pdf

"Covering the years between the end of the Hundred Years War and the beginning of the Thirty Years War, this book explains the part played by war in the lives of individuals in the early modern phase of European history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Jill Kraye,Marc Laureys,David A. Lines
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847006282

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Management and Resolution of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe by Jill Kraye,Marc Laureys,David A. Lines Pdf

This is the third and final volume of essays issuing from the Leverhulme International Network 'Renaissance Conflict and Rivalries: Cultural Polemics in Europe, c. 1300–c. 1650'. The overall aim of the network was to examine the various ways in which conflict and rivalries made a positive contribution to cultural production and change during the Renaissance. The present volume, which contains papers delivered at the third colloquium, draws that examination to a close by considering a range of different strategies deployed in the period to manage conflict and rivalries and to bring them to a positive resolution. The papers explore these developments in the context of political, diplomatic, social, institutional, religious, and art history.

Author : Robert Appelbaum
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781839981487

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The Renaissance Discovery of Violence, from Boccaccio to Shakespeare by Robert Appelbaum Pdf

Many have wondered why the works of Shakespeare and other early modern writers are so filled with violence, with murder and mayhem. This work explains how and why, putting the literature of the European Renaissance in the context of the history of violence. Personal violence was on the decline in Europe beginning in the fifteenth century, but warfare became much deadlier and the stakes of war became much higher as the new nation-states vied for hegemony and the New World became a target of a shattering invasion. There are times when Renaissance writers seem to celebrate violence, but more commonly they anatomized it and were inclined to focus on victims as well as warriors on the horrors of violence as well as the need for force to protect national security and justice. In Renaissance writing, violence has lost its innocence.

Author : Scott Nethersole
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300233513

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Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence by Scott Nethersole Pdf

This study is the first to examine the relationship between art and violence in 15th-century Florence, exposing the underbelly of a period more often celebrated for enlightened and progressive ideas. Renaissance Florentines were constantly subjected to the sight of violence, whether in carefully staged rituals of execution or images of the suffering inflicted on Christ. There was nothing new in this culture of pain, unlike the aesthetic of violence that developed towards the end of the 15th century. It emerged in the work of artists such as Piero di Cosimo, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, and the young Michelangelo. Inspired by the art of antiquity, they painted, engraved, and sculpted images of deadly battles, ultimately normalizing representations of brutal violence. Drawing on work in social and literary history, as well as art history, Scott Nethersole sheds light on the relationship between these Renaissance images, violence, and ideas of artistic invention and authorship.

Author : Allie Terry-Fritsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351574235

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Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Allie Terry-Fritsch Pdf

Interested in the ways in which medieval and early modern communities have acted as participants, observers, and interpreters of events and how they ascribed meaning to them, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the concept of beholding and the experiences of individual and collective beholders of violence during the period. Addressing a range of medieval and early modern art forms, including visual images, material objects, literary texts, and performances, the contributors examine the complexities of viewing and the production of knowledge within cultural, political, and theological contexts. In considering new methods to examine the process of beholding violence and the beholder's perspective, this volume addresses such questions as: How does the process of beholding function in different aesthetic conditions? Can we speak of such a thing as the 'period eye' or an acculturated gaze of the viewer? If so, does this particularize the gaze, or does it risk universalizing perception? How do violence and pleasure intersect within the visual and literary arts? How can an understanding of violence in cultural representation serve as means of knowing the past and as means of understanding and potentially altering the present?

Author : Susan Broomhall,Sarah Finn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317424192

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Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe by Susan Broomhall,Sarah Finn Pdf

Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe examines the purposes for which specific forms of violence and particular emotional states functioned, how they operated in relation to each other, or indeed how one provoked, sustained or diminished the other. These twelve original essays demonstrate the complexities of violence and emotions and the myriad possibilities of their inter-relationships. They emphasize the great efforts that were made by early modern societies to control modes of violence and emotional regimes to achieve positive as well as negative effects, such as creating order, healing, and bringing individuals and communities together around productive identities. Authors consider legal documents, news reports, memoirs, letters, confraternity statutes, and medical consultations to investigate the bodily and textual practices in which violent and emotional acts were created, supported and disseminated to investigate the power, aims, effect and outcomes of relationships between violence and emotions. The chapters look at a range of topics and countries including Renaissance Italy and sixteenth-century Germany, France in the grip of the religious wars, and England’s Civil Wars as well as a wide range of topics including murder, punishment, community healing, insults, threats, prophecy and medical and devotional practices. This collection will be essential reading for students and scholars of the history of emotions or violence.

Author : Beat Kümin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000789386

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The European World 1500–1800 by Beat Kümin Pdf

The European World 1500–1800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It presents early modern Europe not as a mere transition phase, but a dynamic period worth studying in its own right. Written by an experienced team of specialists, and derived from a successful undergraduate course, it offers a student-friendly introduction to all major themes and processes of early modern history. This fully updated fourth edition is structured in six parts – Starting Points, Society and Economy, Religion, The Wider World, Culture, Politics – and includes two new chapters on the Environment and Food and Drink Cultures. Specially designed to assist learning, The European World 1500–1800 features: expert surveys of key topics written by an international group of historians suggestions for seminar discussion and further reading extracts from primary sources and generous illustrations, including maps a glossary of key terms and concepts a full index of persons, places and subjects and a companion website, offering colour images, direct access to primary materials, and interactive features which highlight key events and locations discussed in the volume. The European World 1500–1800 is essential reading for all students embarking on the discovery of the early modern period. For support with the early modern historiographical debates see the partnering volume Interpreting Early Modern Europe edited by C. Scott Dixon and Beat Kümin.- https://www.routledge.com/Interpreting-Early-Modern-Europe/Dixon-Kumin/p/book/9781138799011.

Author : Robert G. Sullivan,Meriem Pagès
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527563346

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Art and Violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Robert G. Sullivan,Meriem Pagès Pdf

This collection of essays explores the intersection of art and violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It will appeal primarily to students and scholars in the fields of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and will also be of interest to readers with an interest in medieval and early modern art history.

Author : Stephen D. Bowd
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198832614

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Renaissance Mass Murder by Stephen D. Bowd Pdf

Renaissance Mass Murder explores the devastating impact of war on the men and women of the Renaissance. In contrast to the picture of balance and harmony usually associated with the Renaissance, it uncovers in forensic detail a world in which sacks of Italian cities and massacres of civilians at the hands of French, German, Spanish, Swiss, and Italian troops were regular occurrences. The arguments presented are based on a wealth of evidence - histories and chronicles, poetry and paintings, sculpture and other objects - which together provide a new and startling history of sixteenth-century Italy and a social history of the Italian Wars. It outlines how massacres happened, how princes, soldiers, lawyers, and writers justified and explained such events, and how they were represented in contemporary culture. On this basis, Renaissance Mass Murder reconstructs the terrifying individual experiences of civilians in the face of war and in doing so offers a story of human tragedy which redresses the balance of the history of the Italian Wars, and of Renaissance warfare, in favour of the civilian and away from the din of battle. This volume also places mass murder in a broader historical context and challenges claims that such violence was unusual or in decline in early modern Europe. Finally, it shows that women often suffered disproportionately from this violence and that immunity for them, as for their children, was often partially developed or poorly respected.

Author : Julius R. Ruff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 052159894X

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Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800 by Julius R. Ruff Pdf

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.

Author : Philip Dwyer,Mark Micale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350140615

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The Darker Angels of Our Nature by Philip Dwyer,Mark Micale Pdf

In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history. But what do top historians think about Pinker's reading of the past? Does his argument stand up to historical analysis? In The Darker Angels of our Nature, seventeen scholars of international stature evaluate Pinker's arguments and find them lacking. Studying the history of violence from Japan and Russia to Native America, Medieval England and the Imperial Middle East, these scholars debunk the myth of non-violent modernity. Asserting that the real story of human violence is richer, more interesting and incomparably more complex than Pinker's sweeping, simplified narrative, this book tests, and bests, 'fake history' with expert knowledge.