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Blood and Violence in Early Modern France (Hardcover)
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Blood and Violence in Early Modern France (Hardcover)
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The rise of civilized conduct and behaviour has long been seen as
one of the major factors in the transformation from medieval to
modern society. Thinkers and historians alike argue that violence
progressively declined as men learned to control their emotions.
The feud is a phenomenon associated with backward societies, and in
the West duelling codified behaviour and channelled aggression into
ritualised combats that satisfied honour without the shedding of
blood. French manners and codes of civility laid the foundations of
civilized Western values. But as this original work of archival
research shows we continue to romanticize violence in the era of
the swashbuckling swordsman. In France, thousands of men died in
duels in which the rules of the game were regularly flouted. Many
duels were in fact mini-battles and must be seen not as a
replacement of the blood feud, but as a continuation of
vengeance-taking in a much bloodier form. This book outlines the
nature of feuding in France and its intensification in the wake of
the Protestant Reformation, civil war and dynastic weakness, and
considers the solutions proposed by thinkers from Montaigne to
Hobbes. The creation of the largest standing army in Europe since
the Romans was one such solution, but the militarization of
society, a model adopted throughout Europe, reveals the darker side
of the civilizing process.
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