Overview
- Investigates forms of aggression and violence among peasant elites
- Highlights inner divisions and conflicts between Nordic peasant communities
- Demonstrates the elites' tendency to assert themselves with aggressive agency
Part of the book series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence (WHCCV)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Confronting the Authorities with Violence
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Front Matter
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Aggressive Transactions with the Authorities
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Conflicts within the Communities
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 entity, the chapters in this collection present us one uniting feature – the peasant elites’ tendency to assert themselves with an active and aggressive agency, even if this led to very different outcomes.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, C. 1500-1700
Editors: Ulla Koskinen
Series Title: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40688-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40687-9Published: 06 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82155-9Published: 12 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40688-6Published: 28 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2730-9630
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 312
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, History of Medieval Europe, Crime and Society, Social History, Cultural History