Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, c. 1500-1700
Ulla . Ed(S): Koskinen
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Hardback. Editor(s): Koskinen, Ulla. Series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence. Num Pages: 312 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
This book investigates the forms that the aggression and violence of peasant elites could take in early modern Fennoscandia, and their role within society. The contributors highlight the social stratification, inner divisions, contradictions and conflicts of the peasant communities, but also pay attention to the elite as leaders of resistance against the authorities. With the formation of more centralised states, the elites’ status and room for agency diminished, but regional and temporal variations were great in this relatively drawn-out process, and there still remained several favourable contexts for their agency. Even though the peasant elite was not a homogenous ... Read more
This book investigates the forms that the aggression and violence of peasant elites could take in early modern Fennoscandia, and their role within society. The contributors highlight the social stratification, inner divisions, contradictions and conflicts of the peasant communities, but also pay attention to the elite as leaders of resistance against the authorities. With the formation of more centralised states, the elites’ status and room for agency diminished, but regional and temporal variations were great in this relatively drawn-out process, and there still remained several favourable contexts for their agency. Even though the peasant elite was not a homogenous ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319406879
SKU
V9783319406879
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About Ulla . Ed(S): Koskinen
Ulla Koskinen is Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her work focuses on forms of interaction, communication and agency in sixteenth-century Finland. She has also studied the social dynamics of early modern peasant society, especially the Western Finnish peasant elites.
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