HIST 3850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process, Nuclear Family

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Murder rate as useful measure of societal violence. Generally complete series of judicial records available. Dark number: number of crimes that remain unreported (typically doesn"t apply to murder) Book: a history of murder by pieter spierenburg. Sources: coroner"s report, court records, in england, both of these began around 1250 b. c. or so, so we have a pretty good record of the rate of murder. Toronto, in a bad year, has maybe 60 murders a year. Book: the civilizing process by norbert elias: mannerisms and public behaviour, rules of dining people became more sensitive to other"s behaviour, increased awareness of their own physicality, civilization is never still, it involves processes of change. Murder in the medieval period often related to issues of honour, and masculinity. More often related to elites violence in general in fact: existed among lower orders, but the elites considered themselves the warrior class still. Violence was often collective, large groups of people with common interests, often families.

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