Violence and Honor in Prerevolutionary Perigord (eBook)

Steven G. Reinhardt (Autor)

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2018
342 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
978-1-78744-177-4 (ISBN)

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Drawing on rich archival sources, explores the relationship between honor and violence in the Perigord region in prerevolutionary France.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 Perigord 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 Perigord 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.

Inhalt

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Violence and Honor
Honor in a Cross-Cultural Context
From Honor to Honnêteté in Old Regime Europe
"The Good Old Days" in Prerevolutionary Sarladais
"The Saint of Honor" in the Sénéchaussée of Sarlat
Women and Honor-Related Criminal Affaires
Policing Honnêteté: Shameful, Sinful, and Criminal Conduct
"Fallen Women" and Infanticide
Compromised Honor and Dangerous Liaisons
Honor and Homicide
Conlusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
• Reihe/Serie: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
• Zusatzinfo: 2 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Rochester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1770-1790 • Anthropology of law • archival sources • Criminal Court Cases • Early Modern Europe • Honor • honor code • Interpersonal Violence • Legal History • Perigord • prerevolutionary France • Steven G. Reinhardt • Violence
• ISBN-10: 1-78744-177-6 / 1787441776
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78744-177-4 / 9781787441774