A New Approach to the History of Violence: Sexual Assault and Sexual Abuse in Europe 1500-1850 (Studies in Central European Histories)

Loetz, Francisca

ISBN 10: 9004297278 / ISBN 13: 9789004297272

Published by Brill Academic Pub, U.S.A., 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A New Approach to the History of Violence: Sexual Assault and Sexual Abuse in Europe 1500-1850 (Studies in Central European Histories)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004297278
• ISBN 13: 9789004297272
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Up to now, historical research has treated violence mainly with reference to war, murder or massacre. Francisca Loetz argues for a new, complementary approach to history of violence as an interpersonal form of social action experienced as unacceptable behavior and aiming to subjugate the victim in everyday life. Analyzing cases of what the sources call “sexual assault” and “sexual abuse” in the city state of Zurich between 1500 and 1850, Loetz discusses fundamental methodological problems such as: how can violence be defined as a concept? What makes violence what it is in a given society? Why is early modern “sexual assault” and “sexual abuse” not equivalent to modern rape and abuse? How does Zurich compare with pre-modern Europe?

About the Author

Francisca Loetz is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She has published monographs, articles, edited volumes and reviews in the social history of medicine, cultural history of the religious, history of crime and problems of methodology including Vom Kranken zum Patienten. Medikalisierung und medizinische Vergesellschaftung in Baden 1750-1850 (Steiner 1993) and Dealings with God. From Blasphemers in Early Modern Zurich to a Cultural History of Religiousness (Ashgate 2009).