🎉   Please check out our new website over at books-etc.com.

Seller
Your price
£40.08
RRP: £46.99
Save £6.91 (15%)
Printed on Demand
Dispatched within 7-9 working days.

Domestic Disturbances, Patriarchal Values

Violence, Family and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1900

Edited by Marianna Muravyeva
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Published: 7th Jun 2017
Dimensions: w 240mm h 170mm d 10mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN-10: 1138098930
ISBN-13: 9781138098930
Barcode No: 9781138098930
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
This book offers an in-depth analysis of several national case studies on family violence between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, using court records as their main source. It raises important questions for research on early modern Europe: the notion of absolute power; sovereignty and its applicability to familial power; the problem of violence and the possibility of its usage for conflict resolution both in public and private spaces; and the interconnection of gender and violence against women, reconsidered in the context of modern state formation as a public sphere and family building as a private sphere. Contributors bring together detailed studies of domestic violence and spousal murder in Romania, England, and Russia, abduction and forced marriage in Poland, infanticide and violence against parents in Finland, and rape and violence against women in Germany. These case studies serve as the basis for a comparative analysis of forms, models, and patterns of violence within the family in the context of debates on political power, absolutism, and violence. They highlight changes towards unlimited violence by family patriarchs in European countries, in the context of the changing relationship between the state and its citizens. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the History of the Family.

New & Used

Seller Information Condition Price
-New£40.08
+ FREE UK P & P

What Reviewers Are Saying

Be the first to review this item. Submit your review now