Cultures of Violence

STUART CARROLL Senior Lecturer in History, the University of York, UKCAROLINE DODDS Research Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UKBERND WEISBROD Professor of Modern History, Göttingen University, GermanyJOHN CARTER WOOD Research Fellow in the Department of History, the Open University, UKANDY WOOD Reader in Social History, the University of East Anglia, UKMICHAEL NASSIET Professor of Early Modern History, the University of Angers, FrancePATRICA PALMER Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature, the University of York, UKRICHARD CUST Reader in Early Modern History, the University of Birmingham, UKANDY HOPPER Lecturer in English Local History at the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester, UKDAVID ANDRESS Reader in Modern European History, the University of Portsmouth, UKMARTIN BLINKHORN Professor Emeritus, the University of Lancaster, UKSTEVEN C. HUGHES Professor of European history, Loyola College, Maryland, USAMARTIN J. WEINER Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of History, Rice University, USABERNHARD RIEGER Lecturer in European history, University College London, UK

• 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

'Offers twelve stimulating and generally meticulously researched essays on topics as diverse as female dismemberment in Aztec rituals, rituals of rebellion in early modern England, vengeance in sixteenth-century France, kidnapping for ransom in the Mediterranean during the long nineteenth century, beheadings in early modern Ireland, and aerial warfare between Britain and Germany during the two world wars.' - Robert Gerwarth, English Historical Review