Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800 (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 22)

New Approaches to European History #22

by Julius R. Ruff

This book offers a broad-ranging survey of violence in western Europe from the Reformation to the French Revolution. Julius Ruff summarizes a huge body of research and provides readers with a clear, accessible, and engaging introduction to the topic of violence in early modern Europe. Ruff examines the role of the emerging state in controlling violence; the roots and forms of interpersonal violence; violence and its impact on women; infanticide; and rioting. His book will be of great value to students of European history, criminal justice sciences, and anthropology.

Genres: History, Sociology, European History, Anthropology, Renaissance, Nonfiction

284 pages, Paperback

First published October 4, 2001

Reviews

[Jack]

Basically it has declined since the period, due to reforms and institutional changes.

[Victoria]

Synthetic history of violence, largely from the judicial perspective. Some question of why violence erupted at particular times and why it took particular forms, but largely concerned with demonstrating the success of the modern policing system for diminishing quotidian violence.