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1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) |
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Oxford historical monographs |
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Oxford historical monographs.
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| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. What was Violence?""; ""2. Scholarly Approaches to Violence""; ""3. The Region and the Period""; ""4. The Sources""; ""1. Grammars of Violence""; ""1. Frameworks of Meaning""; ""2. Violence as Communication""; ""3. The Violence of the Law""; ""4. Who Was to Read Violence?""; ""5. Conclusion""; ""2. Violence on the Street in Paris and Artois""; ""1. The Space of the Street""; ""2. The Role of Street Violence""; ""3. The Perpetrators of Street Violence""; ""4. Types of Violence"" |
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""5. The Contingency of Street Violence""""6. Social Memory""; ""7. Conclusion""; ""3. �Oés comme il fierent grans caus!�: Tavern Violence in Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century Paris and Artois""; ""1. Tavern Violence and the Authorities""; ""2. Tavern Violence in North-East France""; ""3. Tavern Violence in Paris and the Ile-de-France""; ""4. Conclusion""; ""4. Student Violence in Thirteenth-and Early Fourteenth-Century Paris""; ""1. Stereotypes""; ""2. Student Misbehaviour""; ""3. Conclusion""; ""5. Urban Uprisings""; ""1. Theatre""; ""2. Forms of Legitimate Violence"" |
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""3. Civic Ceremonial""""4. Liturgical Processions""; ""5. Carnivals and Contestations""; ""6. Conclusion""; ""6. Domestic Violence in Paris and Artois""; ""1. Legal Prescription""; ""2. The Practice of Domestic Violence""; ""3. The Prosecution of Domestic Violence""; ""4. Conclusion""; ""Conclusion""; ""1. Violence as Communication""; ""2. Indeterminacies""; ""3. Emotional Reactions""; ""4. Ambivalence""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V"" |
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| Summary |
This volume describes and analyses brutality in the later Middle Ages, focusing on a thriving region of Northern France. It explores experiences of, and attitudes towards, violence as well as offering fresh ways of thinking about violence in societies. New light is thrown on the social life of villages and towns in a transitional period |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Violence -- France, Northern -- History -- To 1500
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Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
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Civilization, Medieval
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Social conditions
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Social history -- Medieval
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Violence
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045754
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| Subject |
Europe
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Northern France
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191649868 |
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0191649864 |
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