A History of Violence – From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present

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<li>Chapter 1. What is violence?</li>
<li>Is violence innate?</li>
<li>Violence and manliness</li>
<li>Semen and blood: a history of honour</li>
<li>Chapter 2. Violence: seven centuries of spectacular decline</li>
<li>The reliability of the crime figures</li>
<li>Seven centuries of decline</li>
<li>The ′making′ of young men</li>
<li>Chapter 3. The youth festivals of violence (thirteenth to seventeenth centuries)</li>
<li>A culture of violence</li>
<li>Violent festivities and brutal games</li>
<li>Youth violence</li>
<li>Chapter 4. The urban peace at the end of the Middle Ages</li>
<li>The pacificatory towns</li>
<li>Controlling the young</li>
<li>Violence costs dear</li>
<li>Chapter 5. Cain and Medea. Homicide and the construction of sexed genders (1500–1650)</li>
<li>A judicial revolution</li>
<li>In pursuit of the ungrateful son: the spread of the blood taboo</li>
<li>Medea, the guilty mother</li>
<li>Chapter 6. The noble duel and popular revolt. The metamorphoses of violence</li>
<li>The duel, a French exception</li>
<li>Noble youths sharpen their swords</li>
<li>Popular violence and the frustrations of youth</li>
<li>Chapter 7. Violence tamed (1650–1960)</li>
<li>Murder forbidden</li>
<li>The civilizing town</li>
<li>Violence and changing concepts of honour in the countryside</li>
<li>Chapter 8. Mortal thrills and crime fiction (sixteenth to twentieth centuries)</li>
<li>The devil, assuredly &amp; The birth of the crime fiction</li>
<li>From blood–thirsty murderer to well–loved bandit</li>
<li>Blood and ink</li>
<li>Chapter 9. The return of the gangs. Contemporary adolescence and violence</li>
<li>Death in paradise</li>
<li>Juvenile delinquency</li>
<li>′Rebel without a cause′, or ′eternal recurrence′</li>
<li>Is the end of violence possible?</li>
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