Ritual and Violence
Subtitle: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780199654963
Subjects: Violence; Ritual; Social conflict; France, social life and customs; France, social conditions; France, history, 16th century; France, history, bourbons, 1589-1789
Description: This collection of essays ... was developed from a one-day conference which was held in June 2008 at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. Five of the papers published here were initially delivered on that occasion, but the conference also sought to learn from the differing perspectives of violence outside sixteenth-century France. This concern is also reflected in this collection, which seeks to offer new insights and approaches to the relationship and significance of religion and violence as well as paying tribute to the immense contribution made in this field by the writings of Natalie Zemon Davis.