Violence and Honor in Prerevolutionary Périgord

by Steven Reinhardt

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 Reinhardt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580465838
• ISBN13: 9781580465830
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"