num_pages: 284
description: This book offers a broad-ranging survey of violence in western Europe from the Reformation to the French Revolution. Julius Ruff summarizes a huge body of research and provides readers with a clear, accessible, and engaging introduction to the topic of violence in early modern Europe. Ruff examines the role of the emerging state in controlling violence; the roots and forms of interpersonal violence; violence and its impact on women; infanticide; and rioting. His book will be of great value to students of European history, criminal justice sciences, and anthropology.
language: English
title: Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800
titlecomplete: Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800 (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 22)
genres: Sociology, History, European History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 27
series: New Approaches to European History
publisher: Cambridge University Press