This innovative book tells the fascinating tale of the long
histories of violence, punishment, and the human body, and how they
are all connected. Taking the decline of violence and the
transformation of punishment as its guiding themes, the book
highlights key dynamics of historical and social change, and charts
how a refinement and civilizing of manners, and new forms of
celebration and festival, accompanied the decline of violence.
Pieter Spierenburg, a leading figure in historical criminology,
skillfully extends his view over three continents, back to the
middle ages and even beyond to the Stone Age. Ranging along the way
from murder to etiquette, from social control to popular culture,
from religion to death, and from honor to prisons, every chapter
creatively uses the theories of Norbert Elias, while also engaging
with the work of Foucault and Durkheim.
The scope and rigor of the analysis will strongly interest
scholars of criminology, history, and sociology, while the
accessible style and the intriguing stories on which the book
builds will appeal to anyone interested in the history of violence
and punishment in civilization.
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