| Violence and Honor in Prerevolutionary Périgord Contributor(s): Reinhardt, Steven G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1580465838 ISBN-13: 9781580465830 Publisher: University of Rochester Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - France - History | Social History - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 303.609 |
| LCCN: 2017043827 |
| Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6" W x 9" (1.49 lbs) 342 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Historians and scholars across other disciplines have long sought an explanation for why late medieval and early modern Europeans experienced elevated rates of violent crime, and for why society apparently tolerated such high levels of interpersonal violence. Most of our existing explanations focus on the macro level, looking at causes like the rise of the state or the concomitant cultural shift toward civility. In this study, author Steven G. Reinhardt utilizes a more micro-level, descriptive approach to examine the intersection of honor and violence in prerevolutionary France, in particular in the Périgord region between 1770 and 1790. Drawing on archival sources (such as interrogations, petitions, and inquests), Reinhardt vividly conveys the texture of ordinary people's everyday experiences. Based on a sampling of criminal court cases from a region marginally integrated into the emerging capitalist economy, Violence and Honor in Prerevolutionary Périgord presents a series of extraordinarily rich narratives illustrating their subjects' understanding of the imperatives of the honor code. Combining careful scholarship with popular history, the book will interest historians of early modern Europe, legal scholars, and anthropologists of law, as well as students and general readers interested in the history of violence. Steven G.Reinhardt is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. |