Dangerous Familiars

Dangerous Familiars
Author: Frances E. Dolan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801481345

Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why.

Honour, Violence and Emotions in History

Honour, Violence and Emotions in History
Author: Carolyn Strange
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472519485

Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and violence across a broad range of cultures and regions. Written by leading cultural and social historians from around the world, the book considers how emotions - particularly shame, anger, disgust, jealousy, despair and fear - have been provoked and expressed through culturally-embedded and historically specific understandings of honour. The collection explores a range of contexts, from 17th-century China to 18th-century South Africa and 20th-century Europe, offering a broad and wide-ranging analysis of the interrelationships between honour, violence and emotions in history. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to all researchers studying the relationship between violence and the emotions.

Murder in Shakespeare's England

Murder in Shakespeare's England
Author: Vanessa McMahon
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2006-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781852855369

A social history of how murder was committed, investigated, and punished in Stuart England examines a range of specific cases while discussing the seventeenth-century public's fascination with violence as reflected in its overflowing courtrooms and numerous crime-inspired works of art.