Blood and Violence in Early Modern France (repost)
Blood and Violence in Early Modern France
Oxford University Press | 2006-07-03 | ISBN: 0199290458 | 384 pages | PDF | 3,9 MB
Oxford University Press | 2006-07-03 | ISBN: 0199290458 | 384 pages | PDF | 3,9 MB
The rise of civilized conduct and behaviour has long been seen as one of the major factors in the transformation from medieval to modern society. Thinkers and historians alike argue that violence progressively declined as men learned to control their emotions. The feud is a phenomenon associated with backward societies, and in the West duelling codified behaviour and channelled aggression into ritualised combats that satisfied honour without the shedding of blood. French manners and codes of civility laid the foundations of civilized Western values. But as this original work of archival research shows we continue to romanticize violence in the era of the swashbuckling swordsman.