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Aspects of violence in Renaissance Europe.
1. Violence--Europe--History--To 1500. 2. Violence-
Europe--History--16th century. 3. Violence--Europe-
History--17th century.
I. Davies, Jonathan, 1966
303.609409031-dc23
The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Aspects of violence in Renaissance Europe / edited by Jonathan Davies.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-3341-5 (hardcover : alkaline paper) -- ISBN 978-1-3155-6809-6 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-3171-7805-7 (ePUB) 1. Violence--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500. 2. Violence--Social aspects--Europe--History--16th century. 3. Violence--Social aspects--Europe--History--17th century. 4. Renaissance. 5. War and society--Europe--History--To 1500. 6. War and society--Europe--History--16th century. 7. War and society--Europe--History--17th century. 8. Justice, Administration of--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500. 9. Justice, Administration of--Social aspects--Europe--History--16th century. 10. Justice, Administration of--Social aspects--Europe--History--17th century. I. Davies, Jonathan, 1966-
HN380.Z9V52 2013
303.62094--dc23
2012048384
ISBN: 978-1-4094-3341-5 (hbk)
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Notes on Contributors
Sarah Covington is Associate Professor of History at Queens College/The City University of New York. She is the author of The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003) and Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009).
Marina Daiman is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is currently finishing her dissertation on Peter Paul Rubens. Her publications include Telling What is Told: Repetition and Originality in Rubenss English Works, in Rebecca Herissone and Alan Howard, eds, Concepts of Creativity in Seventeenth-Century England (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming).
Jonathan Davies is Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance History at the University of Warwick. His publications include Florence and Its University during the Early Renaissance (Leiden: Brill, 1998) and Culture and Power: Tuscany and Its Universities 15371609 (Leiden: Brill, 2009). He is currently researching the academic environment of violence in early modern Italy.
Lucien Faggion is Matre de Confrences at the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I) TELEMME (Maison Mditerranenne des Sciences de lHomme) where he teaches modern history. His publications include Les Seigneurs du droit dans la Rpublique de Venise. Collge des Juges et socit Vicence lpoque moderne (15301730 env.) (Geneva: Slatkine, 1998), Le notaire, entre profession et espace public en Europe (VIIIeXVIIIe sicle) (Aix-en-Provence: PUP, 2008) and Le Don. Usages et ambiguts dun paradigme anthropologique lpoque mdivale et moderne (Aix-en-Provence: PUP, 2010). Together with Christophe Regina, he is the editor of La violence. Regards croiss sur une ralit plurielle (Paris: CNRS, 2010). He is now editing a book on judicial, political and religious rites in the Middle Ages and the modern period.
Alan James is Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at Kings College London. His publications include The Navy and Government in Early Modern France, 15721661 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2004) and The Origins of French Absolutism, 15981661 (London: Pearson, 2006). He is currently working on a study of the English, French and Spanish struggle for control of the Azores in the 1580s.
Miriam Hall Kirch is Assistant Professor of Art at the University of North Alabama. Her publications include studies of the portraits of the Anglo-German astronomers, William, Caroline and Sir John Herschel, and of exhibition practices. With German colleagues, she is working on a project to publish a dual-language edition of an inventory which may be the earliest extant detailed record of a princely Kunst- und Wunderkammer.
Amanda G. Madden is Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her PhD dissertation is entitled Women, Vendetta Politics and State Formation in Early Modern Modena.
Jolle Rollo-Koster is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Rhode Island. Her extensive publications on the papacy include Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378) (Leiden: Brill, 2008), and with Thomas Izbicki, A Companion to the Great Western Schism (13781417) (Leiden: Brill, 2009).
Justine Semmens is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Victoria. She is currently finishing her dissertation, The body of a She-Devil: Symbolic Violence, female aggression and civility in France, 15501650. Her publications include La Clture dans le Monde: Enclosure and the Religious Imagination in Histoire de lordre des Religieuses Filles de Ntre-Dame in Olga Zorzi Pugliese and Ethan Matt Kavaler, eds, Faith and Fantasy in the Renaissance: Texts, Images, and Religious Practices (Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2009).
Hannah Skoda is Fellow and Tutor in History at St Johns College, Oxford. Her publications include Violent Discipline or Disciplining Violence? Domestic Violence in Late Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century France, Cultural and Social History Journal (2009) and Medieval Violence: Physical Brutality in Northern France, 12701330
