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A Renaissance of Violence - Homicide in Early Modern Italy (Paperback)
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A Renaissance of Violence - Homicide in Early Modern Italy (Paperback)
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Based on a close examination of more than 700 homicide trials, A
Renaissance of Violence exposes the deep social instability at the
core of the early modern states of North Italy. Following a series
of crises in the early seventeenth century, interpersonal violence
in the region grew to frightening levels, despite the efforts of
courts and governments to reduce social conflict. In this detailed
study of violence in early modern Europe, Colin Rose shows how
major crises, such as the plague of 1630, reduced the strength of
social bonds among both elite and ordinary Italians. As a result,
incidents of homicidal violence exploded - in small rural
communities, in the crowded urban center and within tightly-knit
families. Combining statistical analysis and close reading of
homicide patterns, Rose demonstrates how the social contexts of
violence, as much as the growth of state power, can contribute to
explaining how and why interpersonal violence grew so rapidly in
North Italy in the seventeenth century.
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