| Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, C. 1500-1700 Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Koskinen, Ulla (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319821555 ISBN-13: 9783319821559 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Social Science | Criminology - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 364 |
| Series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.87 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book investigates the forms that the aggression and violence of peasant elites could take in early modern Fennoscandia, and their role within society. The contributors highlight the social stratification, inner divisions, contradictions and conflicts of the peasant communities, but also pay attention to the elite as leaders of resistance against the authorities. With the formation of more centralised states, the elites' status and room for agency diminished, but regional and temporal variations were great in this relatively drawn-out process, and there still remained several favourable contexts for their agency. Even though the peasant elite was not a homogenous entity, the chapters in this collection present us one uniting feature - the peasant elites' tendency to assert themselves with an active and aggressive agency, even if this led to very different outcomes. |