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Author | : Eva Österberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Toomas Kotkas |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2013-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004258957 |
Download Royal Police Ordinances in Early Modern Sweden Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Royal Police Ordinances in Early Modern Sweden offers a comprehensive account of the legal regulation of 16th- and 17th-century Swedish society. In comparison to present-day usage, during the early modern period the term ‘police’ had a broader meaning. It referred to ‘good societal order’ covering a variety of areas of societal life such as public finances, commerce, professions, infrastructure, public health and poor relief, public morality, public security, and so on. Through an analysis of a large body of ordinances Toomas Kotkas claims that in 17th-century Sweden a new, voluntaristic understanding of law emerged. Royal police ordinances were no longer perceived merely as a means of enforcing older medieval law but instead as an instrument of directing society towards aspired-to goals.
Author | : Philip S. Gorski |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2010-09-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0226304868 |
Download The Disciplinary Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation. By refining and diffusing a variety of disciplinary techniques and strategies, such as communal surveillance, control through incarceration, and bureaucratic office-holding, Calvin and his followers created an infrastructure of religious governance and social control that served as a model for the rest of Europe—and the world.
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Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Riikka Miettinen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2019-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030118452 |
Download Suicide, Law, and Community in Early Modern Sweden Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the judicial treatment of suicides in early modern Sweden, with a focus on the criminal investigation and selective treatment of suicides in the lower courts in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Riikka Miettinen shows that reactions and attitudes towards suicides varied considerably despite harsh condemnation by officials. The indictment, investigation, and classification of suspected suicides and the mental state of a person already deceased were challenging, and depended on local co-operation and lay testimonies. Not all suicides were considered alike; a widespread view on the heinousness of suicide was not the same as agreement about specific cases, and did not result in uniform handling of them. The social status and local ties of the deceased influenced the interpretations and responses at the local lower courts and communities. Esteemed local community members had a better defence and greater chance to escape the shameful penalties.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2017-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004352376 |
Download Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe offers an analysis of the various ways in which people made preparations for death in medieval and early modern Northern Europe.
Author | : Eric Arthur Johnson |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252065460 |
Download The Civilization of Crime Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Along with most of the rest of Western culture, has crime itself become more "civilized"? This book exposes as myths the beliefs that society has become more violent than it has been in the past and that violence is more likely to occur in cities than in rural areas. The product of years of study by scholars from North America and Europe, The Civilization of Crime shows that, however violent some large cities may be now, both rural and urban communities in Sweden, Holland, England, and other countries were far more violent during the late Middle Ages than any cities are today. Contributors show that the dramatic change is due, in part, to the fact that violence was often tolerated or even accepted as a form of dispute settlement in village-dominated premodern society. Interpersonal violence declined in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as dispute resolution was taken over by courts and other state institutions and the church became increasingly intolerant of it. The book also challenges a number of other historical-sociological theories, among them that contemporary organized crime is new, and addresses continuing debate about the meaning and usefulness of crime statistics. CONTRIBUTORS: Esther Cohen, Herman Diederiks, Florike Egmond, Eric A. Johnson, Michele Mancino, Eric H. Monkkonen, Eva Österberg, James A. Sharpe, Pieter Spierenburg, Jan Sundin, Barbara Weinberger
Author | : Christopher R. Friedrichs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317901851 |
Download The Early Modern City 1450-1750 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A pioneering text which covers the urban society of early modern Europe as a whole. Challenges the usual emphasis on regional diversity by stressing the extent to which cities across Europe shared a common urban civilization whose major features remained remarkably constant throughout the period. After outlining the physical, political, religious, economic and demographic parameters of urban life, the author vividly depicts the everyday routines of city life and shows how pitifully vulnerable city-dwellers were to disasters, epidemics, warfare and internal strife.
Author | : Christine Ekholst |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2014-04-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004271627 |
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A Punishment for Each Criminal is the first in-depth analysis of how gender influenced Swedish medieval law. Christine Ekholst demonstrates how the law codes gradually and unevenly introduced women as possible perpetrators for all serious crimes. The laws reveal that legislators not only expected men and women to commit different types of crimes; they also punished men and women in different ways if they were convicted. The laws consistently stipulated different methods of executions for men and women; while men were hanged or broken on the wheel, women were buried alive, stoned, or burned at the stake. A Punishment for Each Criminal explores the background to the important legislative changes that took place when women were made personally responsible for their own crimes.
Author | : Eva Österberg |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2010-01-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 6155211795 |
Download Friendship and Love, Ethics and Politics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Today, friendship, love and sexuality are mostly viewed as private, personal and informal relations. In the mediaeval and early modern period, just like in ancient times, this was different. The classical philosophy of friendship (Aristotle) included both friendship and love in the concept of philia. It was also linked to an argument about the virtues needed to become an excellent member of the city state. Thus, close relations were not only thought to be a matter of pleasant gatherings in privacy, but just as much a matter of ethics and politics.What, then, happened to the classical ideas of close relations when they were transmitted to philosophers, clerical and monastic thinkers, state officials or other people in the medieval and early modern period? To what extent did friendship transcend the distinctions between private and public that then existed? How were close relations shaped in practice? Did dialogues with close friends help to contribute to the process of subject-formation in the Renaissance and Enlightenment? To what degree did institutions of power or individual thinkers find it necessary to caution against friendship or love and sexuality?