Aspects of violence in Renaissance Europe 1. Interpersonal and Ritual Violence Student Violence in Fifteenth Century Paris and Oxford Hannah Skoda The Politics of Transition : Pillaging and the 1527 Sack of Rome Joëlle Rollo Koster Death on the Danube Miriam Hall Kirch Plague Propaganda and Prophetic Violence in Sixteenth Century Lyon Justine Semmens 2. War Rethinking the Peace of Westphalia : Toward a Theory of Early Modern Warfare Alan James Broken Verses across a Bloodied Land : Violence and the Limits of Language in the English Civil War Sarah Covington Peter Paul Rubens : Broker of Peace Painter of Violence Marina Daiman 3. Justice Violence Rites and Social Regulation in the Venetian Terra Firma in the Sixteenth Century Lucien Faggion Una causa civile : Vendetta Violence and Governing Elites in Early Modern Modena Amanda G. Madden