Parricide and Violence Against Parents Throughout History: (De)Constructing Family and Authority?

By Marianna Muravyeva, Phillip Shon, Raisa Maria Toivo

Book Overview

Introduction; Marianna Muravyeva and Raisa Toivo.- PART 1: NORMATIVE CONCEPTS AND FAMILY AUTHORITY.- 'What Kind of Monster or Beast are You?' Parricide and Patricide in Roman Law and Society; Barbara Biscotti.- 'A timely warning to rash and disobedient children': Normative Literature and Violence against Parents in England, 1600-1800; Jim Sharpe.- Degeneracy and Abuse: Attitudes to Violence against Parents in Nineteenth-Century Russia.- PART 2: HISTORICISING VIOLENCE AGAINST PARENTS: LOCALITIES AND IDENTITIES.- 'You would have them lock me up and sell me as slave': Parents and Children in Eighteenth-Century Wallachia; Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu.- From Confession to Declaration: Parricide in Scotland, 1660 to 1830; Katie Barclay.- Unimaginable Crime and Imaginary Criminals: The Thorvald Sletten Matricide Case, 1899-1907; Silje Warberg.- Gender and the Historicity of Parricide: A Case Study from the Nineteenth-Century North American West; Peter Boag.- PART 3: STRUGGLING WITH PARENTAL AUTHORITY IN EARLY MODERN AND MODERN SOCIETIES.- Ambivalent Fatherhood: On Disobedience and Assaults against Parental Authority in Munich in the Early Seventeenth Century; Satu Lidman.- Parricide in nineteenth-century Finland: Cultures of Violence and a Crisis of Authority; Raisa Maria Toivo.- 'His Disobedient Son': Sami Narratives of Parental Authority in Eighteenth-Century Finnmark; Liv Helene Willumsen.- Conclusion; Marianna Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Toivo.- Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349957003
• ISBN13: 9781349957002
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"