This book focuses on the intersection of honor and violence in prerevolutionary France, in particular in the Perigord region, between 1770 and 1790. It has long been known that late medieval and early modern Europe had high rates of violent crime, and historians and scholars across other disciplines have sought an explanation for why society tolerated such high levels of interpersonal violence. Most of our existing explanations focus on the macro level, looking at causes like the rise of the state or the concomitant cultural shift toward civility. In this study, author Steven Reinhardt...