The feud in early modern Germany
"The practice of feuding amongst noblemen and princes represented a substantial threat to law and order, yet it was widely accepted and deeply embedded in late medieval and early modern German society. Hillay Zmora offers a new interpretation of this violent social practice, which has long conf...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press,
2011
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schlagworte: | Dueling Vendetta Nobility Deutschland Fehde Geschichte 1440-1570 |
| Umfang: | XIV, 211 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 1. Introduction: the struggle over the feud in early modern Germany
- 2. The rules of the game
- 3. Values and violence: the morals of feuding
- 4. The wages of success: reproduction and the proliferation of conflicts
- 5. Enemies of the state? Feuding nobles, ruling princes, and the struggle for mastery in early modern Germany
- 6. The politics of civility: the decay of the feud