Item Number: 127386 Title: Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe Author: Davies, Jonathan (ed) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781409433415 Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 276pp., 13 b&w illus. Contents: Introduction, Jonathan Davies; Part I Interpersonal and Ritual Violence: Student violence in 15th-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 16th-century Lyon, Justine Semmens. Part II 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. Part III Justice: Violence, rites, and social regulation in the Venetian terra firma in the 16th century, Lucien Faggion; ‘Una causa civile’: vendetta violence and governing elites in early-modern Modena, Amanda G. Madden. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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