Writing 'The Rites of Violence' and Afterward
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4162619 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Z Davis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 214 |
| Issue | suppl 7 |
| Pages | 8-29 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Past & Present (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2746 • E-ISSN: 1477-464X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pastj/gtr016 |
| OpenAlex | W2026341340 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The year 1972 was the three-hundredth anniversary of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew's day, and French historians in many lands marked its bloodshed and cruelty by conferences and scholarly papers. Alfred Soman invited me to present a paper at a colloquium on the massacre in Chicago. I accepted with alacrity, partly because I was impelled toward the subject of violence for several reasons at once. Both the scholarly stakes and the political stakes seemed high. In the years just before 1972, I was figuring out how to combine classic social history with the descriptive and semiotic approaches I was learning from reading cultural anthropology, ethnography, and literary criticism. Essays I wrote in the tradition of classic social history were, for example, ‘Strikes and Salvation’ and ‘A Trade Union in Sixteenth-Century France’ on the printing workers of Lyon; ‘Poor Relief, Humanism, and Heresy’ on welfare reform in Lyon; and ‘City Women...
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |