Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Female Dismemberment and Decapitation: Gendered Understandings of Power in Aztec Ritual Violence....Pages 47-63
Religious Languages of Violence. Some Reflections on the Reading of Extremes....Pages 64-78
Conceptualizing Cultures of Violence and Cultural Change....Pages 79-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Collective Violence, Social Drama and Rituals of Rebellion in Late Medieval and Early Modern England....Pages 99-116
Vengeance in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France....Pages 117-128
At the Sign of the Head: The Currency of Beheading in Early Modern Ireland....Pages 129-155
Duelling and the Court of Chivalry in Early Stuart England....Pages 156-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Popular Violence in the French Revolution: Revolt, Retribution and the Slide to State Terror....Pages 175-191
Avoiding the Ultimate Act of Violence: Mediterranean Bandits and Kidnapping for Ransom, 1815–1914....Pages 192-211
Swords and Daggers: Class Conceptions of Interpersonal Violence in Liberal Italy....Pages 212-235
Race, Class and Maritime Authority in Late Victorian England: The Surprising Cases of Charles Arthur (1888) and Bagwahn Jassiwara (1891)....Pages 236-246
From ‘Duels in the Clouds’ to ‘Exterminating Attacks’: Legitimizing Aerial Warfare in Britain and Germany, 1914–45....Pages 247-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-271