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Roberts, Penny (2017) French historians and collective violence. History and Theory, 56 (4). pp. 60-75. doi:10.1111/hith.12038 ISSN 0018-2656.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12038
Abstract
French historians and French history have dominated the study of early modern violence. This essay addresses why this is so and what has characterized French historians’ approaches to collective violence in particular, whether in the form of popular revolt, confessional division or revolutionary violence. It posits that historians are essentially uncomfortable in defending and explaining popular violence in the past, that they ought to address this issue more directly and not to establish too much cultural distance from their subjects in doing so. It concludes with some reflections on approaches to violence in the past and the present, how historians and others talk about and engage with violence, and how its treatment today should inform how historians address the challenges of writing the history of violence in the future.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DC France H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Violence -- History -- France -- 15th century, Violence -- History -- France -- 16th century, Violence -- History -- France -- 17th century, Violence -- History -- France -- 18th century, Historians -- France | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | History and Theory | ||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0018-2656 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 12 December 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 56 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 60-75 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/hith.12038 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 October 2017 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 December 2019 |
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