Table of Contents:
- I. The structure of vindicatory violence
- 1) The origins of dispute: blood and earth
- 2) The origins of dispute: status and honour
- 3) Honours and prerogatives
- 4) Escalation: from verbal duel to vindicatory exchange
- 5) Conspiracy
- 6) Combat
- 7) The rage of the gods
- II. Violence and society
- 8) Justice and the law
- 9) Peace
- 10) Women, sex, and vindicatory violence
- III. Violence and the polity
- 11) Quantifying violence
- 12) The crisis of the religious wars
- 13) Violence and royal authority in the seventeenth century
- 14) Solutions.