Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe

by Stuart Carroll

In this original study Stuart Carroll transforms our understanding of Europe between 1500 and 1800 by exploring how ordinary people felt about their enemies and the violence it engendered. Enmity, a state or feeling of mutual opposition or hostility, became a major social problem during the transition to modernity. He examines how people used the law, and how they characterised their enmities and expressed their sense of justice or injustice. Through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 100928732X
• ISBN13: 9781009287326
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"