violence, family and sexuality in early modern Europe, 1600-1900
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Muravyeva, Marianna > (ed)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- huiselijk geweld, moorden, huwelijken, seksueel geweld, geweld, ouders, infanticide, recht, Europa, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw
- Description
- This book offers an analysis of case studies on family violence between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, using court records as their main source. It raises questions for research on early modern Europe: the notion of absolute power: sovereignty and its applicability to familial power: the problem of violence and the possibility of its usage for conflict resolution both in public and private spaces: and the interconnection of gender and violence against women, reconsidered in the context of modern state formation as a public sphere and family building as a private sphere. Contributors bring together studies of domestic violence and spousal murder in Romania, England, and Russia, abduction and forced marriage in Poland, infanticide and violence against parents in Finland, and rape and violence against women in Germany.