Carroll, Stuart,  1965- <br/><br/>
Blood and violence in early modern France  [electronic resource] / 
Stuart Carroll. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  2006. 
 - 369 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-349) and index. 
<br/><br/>I. The structure of vindicatory violence -- The origins of dispute : blood and earth -- The origins of dispute : status and honour -- Honours and prerogatives -- Escalation : from verbal duel to vindicatory exchange -- Conspiracy -- Combat -- The rage of the gods -- II. Violence and society -- Justice and the law -- Peace -- Women, sex, and vindicatory violence -- III. Violence and the polity -- Quantifying violence -- The crisis of the religious wars -- Violence and royal authority in the seventeenth century -- Solutions. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA618603  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label> Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Violence--History--France--17th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>France--History--17th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DC121.3  / .C37 2006eb