Table of Contents:
  • 1. Interpersonal and Ritual Violence
  • Student Violence in Fifteenth-Century Paris and Oxford / Hannah Skoda
  • The Politics of Transition : Pillaging and the 1527 Sack of Rome / JoĆ«lle Rollo-Koster
  • Death on the Danube / Miriam Hall Kirch
  • Plague, Propaganda and Prophetic Violence in Sixteenth-Century Lyon / Justine Semmens
  • 2. War
  • Rethinking the Peace of Westphalia : Toward a Theory of Early Modern Warfare / Alan James
  • "Broken Verses across a Bloodied Land" : Violence and the Limits of Language in the English Civil War / Sarah Covington
  • Peter Paul Rubens : Broker of Peace, Painter of Violence / Marina Daiman
  • 3. Justice
  • Violence, Rites, and Social Regulation in the Venetian Terra Firma in the Sixteenth Century / Lucien Faggion
  • "Una causa civile" : Vendetta Violence and Governing Elites in Early Modern Modena / Amanda G. Madden.