The Cambridge World History of Violence

ISBN-13: 9781107156388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 722 str.

Matthew Gordon; Richard Kaeuper; Harriet Zurndorfer

Opis

Second volume of the first world history of violence, covering the Middle Millennium, written by an international team of experts.

Spis treści

1. Violence in inner Asian history Nicola Di Cosmo; 2. Conspirators in violence Don J. Wyatt; 3. Armies, lords and subjects in Medieval Iran Jürgen Paul; 4. Armies and bands in early medieval Europe John France; 5. Viking violence Anders Winroth; 6. Early medieval China's rulers, retainers and harem Jonathan Karam Skaff; 7. Warrior regimes and the regulation of violence in medieval Japan David Spafford; 8. Torture and public executions in the Islamic middle period Christian Lange; 9. Crime and law in Europe Hannah Skoda; 10. Banditry and peasants in medieval Japan Morten Oxenbøll; 11. State, society and trained violence in middle period China Peter Lorge; 12. Seigneurial violence in medieval Europe Justine Firnhaber-Baker; 13. The growth of military power and the impact of state military violence in Western Europe, c.1460 to 1560 David Potter; 14. Ethnic and religious violence in Byzantium Teresa Shawcross; 15. Violence against women in the early Islamic period Nadia Maria El Cheikh; 16. Violence and murder in Europe Sara M. Butler; 17. Religion and violence in China T. H. Barrett; 18. Religion and violence in premodern Japan Martin Repp; 19. Human sacrifice and ritualised violence in the Americas before the European conquest Ute Schüren and Wolfgang Gabbert; 20. 'Not cruelty but piety': circumscribing European crusading violence Susanna A. Throop; 21. Chivalric violence Richard W. Kaeuper; 22. Jihad in Islamic thought Asma Afsaruddin; 23. Christian violence against heretics, Jews and Muslims Christine Caldwell Ames; 24. 'Fighting for peace' John Haldon; 25. Obligation, substitution and order Andrew K. Scherer; 26. Representations of violence in Imperial China Bret Hinsch; 27. Revealing the manly worth Hitomi Tonomura; 28. Picturing violence in the Islamic lands Sheila Blair; 29. Scenes of violence in Arabic literature James Montgomery; 30. Violence Is the name of the (bad) game Albrecht Classen; 31. Violence and the force of representation in European art Mitchell B. Merback.