Cultures of Violence

Introduction; S.Carroll PART I: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES Female Dismemberment and Decapitation: Gendered Understandings of Power in Aztec Ritual; C.Dodds Religious Languages of Violence: Some Reflections on the Reading of Extremes; B.Weisbrod Conceptualizing Cultures of Violence and Cultural Change; J.Carter Wood PART II: EARLY MODERN PERSPECTIVES Collective Violence, Social drama and Rituals of Rebellion in Late Medieval and Early modern England; A.Wood Vengence in Sixteenth-Century France; M.Nassiet At the Sign of the Head: the Currency of Beheading in Early Modern Ireland; P.Palmer Duelling and the Court of Chivalry in Early Stuart England; R.Cust & A.Hopper PART III: MODERN PERSPECTIVES Popular Violence in the French Revlolution: Revolt, Retribution and the Slide to State Terror; D.Andress Avoiding the Ultimate Act of Violence: Mediterranean Bandits and the Kidnapping for Ransom, 1815-1914; M.Blinkhorn Swords and Daggers: Class Conceptions of Interpersonal Violence in Liberal Italy; S.C.Hughes Race, Class and Maritime Authority in Late Victorian England: the Surprising Cases of Charles Arthur (1888) and Bagwahn Jassiwara (1891); M.J.Wiener From 'Duels in the Clouds' to 'Exterminating Attacks': Legitimizing Aerial Warfare in Britain and Germany, 1814-1945; B.Rieger