1st Edition

Domestic Disturbances, Patriarchal Values Violence, Family and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1900

Edited By Marianna Muravyeva Copyright 2016
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers an in-depth analysis of several national case studies on family violence between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, using court records as their main source. It raises important questions for research on early modern Europe: the notion of absolute power; sovereignty and its applicability to familial power; the problem of violence and the possibility of its usage for conflict... Read more

Introduction – ‘A king in his own household’: domestic discipline and family violence in early modern Europe reconsidered Marianna Muravyeva

1. Violence or justice? Gender-specific structures and strategies in early modern Europe Satu Lidman

2. Judicial archives and the history of the Romanian family: domestic conflict and the Orthodox Church in the eighteenth century Constanţa Vintilă -Ghiţulescu

3. Vigilante violence vs. freedom of choice in marriage: the Foray/Zajazd in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth of the 18th century Lynn Lubamersky

4. Marital cruelty: reconsidering lay attitudes in England, c. 1580 to 1850 Joanne Bailey and Loreen Giese

5. ‘Till Death Us Do Part’: spousal homicide in early modern Russia Marianna Muravyeva

6. Violence between parents and children: courts of law in early modern Finland Raisa Maria Toivo

7. Female serial killers in the early modern age? Recurrent infanticide in Finland 1750 – 1896 Mona Rautelin

Biography

Marianna Muravyeva is a Professor and Marie Curie senior research fellow at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. Her research focuses on the history of crime, legal history, gender history, and the history of sexuality in early modern Europe.