Blood and violence in early modern France /
Carroll, Stuart,1965-
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-349) and index.
I. The structure of vindicatory violence -- The origins of dispute : blood and earth -- The origins of dispute : status and honour -- Honours and prerogatives -- Escalation : from verbal duel to vindicatory exchange -- Conspiracy -- Combat -- The rage of the gods -- II. Violence and society -- Justice and the law -- Peace -- Women, sex, and vindicatory violence -- III. Violence and the polity -- Quantifying violence -- The crisis of the religious wars -- Violence and royal authority in the seventeenth century -- Solutions.
Violence