Honour, Violence and Emotions in History

Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Historical perspectives on honour, violence and emotion -- 2. The severed head speaks: Death, revenge, moral heroism and martyrdom in sixteenth to seventeenth-century China -- 3. From honour to virtue: The shifting social logics of masculinity and honour in early modern Sweden -- 4. 'For the Shame of the World, and Fear of Her Mother's Anger': Emotion and child murder in England and Scotland in the long eighteenth century -- 5. 'Unbridled Passions', honour and status in late eighteenth-century Cape Town -- 6. Death on a river: Honour and violence in an Australian penal colony, 1826-1827 -- 7. Of clubs and whiskers: Young men, honour and violence in the backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1865-1889 -- 8. Emotion, gender and honour in a fin-de-siècle crime of passion: The case of Marie Bière -- 9. Deeper than the death: Chaste suicide, emotions and politics of honour in nineteenth-century Korea -- 10. How the duel of honour promoted civility and attenuated violence in Western Europe -- Honour, violence and emotion: An afterword -- Index -- Imprint.

Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and violence across a broad range of cultures and regions. Written by leading cultural and social historians from around the world, the book considers how emotions - particularly shame, anger, disgust, jealousy, despair and fear - have been provoked and expressed through culturally-embedded and historically specific understandings of honour. The collection explores a range of contexts, from 17th-century China to 18th-century Sou