Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, C. 1500-1700 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book investigates the forms that the aggression and violence of peasant elites could take in early modern Fennoscandia, and their role within society. The contributors highlight the social stratification, inner divisions, contradictions and conflicts of the peasant communities, but also pay attention to the elite as leaders of resistance against the authorities. With the formation of more centralised states, the elites' status and room for agency diminished, but regional and temporal variations were great in this relatively drawn-out process, and there still remained several favourable contexts for their agency. Even though the peasant elite was not a homogenous entity, the chapters in this collection present us one uniting feature - the peasant elites' tendency to assert themselves with an active and aggressive agency, even if this led to very different outcomes.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
Release date:	2017
First published:	2016
Editors:	Ulla Koskinen
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	312
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-40687-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
LSN:	3-319-40687-6
Barcode:	9783319406879

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