Historiographie du crime et de la justice criminelle dans l’espace français (1990-2005)

Rousseaux, Xavier

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“…The socio‐economic paradigm that dominated until the middle of the 1970s, particularly among the French school of the Annales , initially led historians to envisage criminality, and therefore violence, as the product of poverty and marginality (Rousseaux, , p. 124). However, with the progress in the study of criminal court records and the success of historical anthropology and cultural studies in the 1980s, historians reoriented their interpretation of violence as a well‐integrated behaviour of medieval and early modern society, a behaviour that obeyed a series of social codes and implicit rules and could therefore be reduced to an irrational pulsion.…”

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“…Scholars have found in the narrative contents of pardon letters and petitions a formidable source of information for the history of violence and social conflict in premodern societies, giving access to the lives and “voices” (Würgler, ) of ordinary people who did not produce any other transcript, which explains the keen scholarly interest in these documents. Research includes works from various disciplines and historiographical trends, from legal history to political, social, and cultural history, and even microhistory, but some of the major contributions came from what is conventionally called the “history of crime and criminal justice” (Lawrence, ; Rousseaux, , , ). This new subdiscipline that emerged in the last decades of the 20th century did not have a single theoretical basis, since it brought together scholars from various branches of history, all sharing a common interest for the study of criminality and its regulation.…”

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The power to pardon in late medieval and early modern Europe: New perspectives in the history of crime and criminal justice

Verreycken

2019

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Over the past 30 years, few sources have been the subject of more scholarly attention than medieval and early modern pardon letters. These charters, issued by the royal or princely chancery in response to a petition addressed to the monarch and his council, were the strongest manifestation of the sovereign's right to remit crimes in many European polities, including France, England, the Low Countries, Castile, and Portugal. Following the paradigmatic interpretation of ordinary violence as the expression of well‐integrated social behaviours, historians of crime and criminal justice have found in petitions and pardon letters records of powerful narratives describing episodes of violence in the population's everyday life. Yet scholars have also debated the reliability of these stories, as they were obviously designed to support the petitioners' claim for pardon. Another major historiographical controversy concerns the articulation between the power to pardon and the criminal policies of the monarchs. While some historians considered the granting of pardon letters as the product of a weak or corrupted justice system that preferred to remit crimes in exchange for money rather prosecuting the perpetrators, others argued that the rise of the power to pardon followed the process of early modern State‐building and served to temper criminal prosecutions and assert the sovereign's right over the life and death of his subjects. This essay introduces the reader to the historiography of pardon letters and shows its connections with the recent developments in the history of crime and criminal justice in late medieval and early modern Europe.

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The power to pardon in late medieval and early modern Europe: New perspectives in the history of crime and criminal justice

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2019

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“… See Garnot (1989) andRousseaux (2006) for a literature survey.7 For an insightful discussion of Nicolas' work and the related literature, seeKaplan (2015, pp. 95- 116).…”

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Environmental shocks, religious struggle, and resilience: a contribution to the economic history of Ancien Régime France

Chambru

2022

European Review of Economic History

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The potential link between climate variability, conflict, and migration is increasingly viewed as a security issue by policy makers. Climate variability and extremes raise critical challenges to agriculture and food production all over the world, and lead to diminished coping capacity, loss of livelihoods, as well as migration flows. The essays in this dissertation raise the question of resilience to shocks in preindustrial economies using the cases of France and Savoy during the Ancien Régime. More specifically, it documents the role of institutions and migration in reducing the vulnerability to climate shocks and hence violence. It further studies both the effect of seasonal migration as a resilience strategy against adverse economic conditions, and the socio-economic consequences of large and unexpected episode of migration.

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The Civilising Process, Decline of Homicide, and Mass Murder Societies: Norbert Elias and the History of Violence

Rousseaux

Verreycken

2021

Norbert Elias in Troubled Times

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Historiographie du crime et de la justice criminelle dans l’espace français (1990-2005)

Cited by 5 publications

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The power to pardon in late medieval and early modern Europe: New perspectives in the history of crime and criminal justice

The power to pardon in late medieval and early modern Europe: New perspectives in the history of crime and criminal justice

Environmental shocks, religious struggle, and resilience: a contribution to the economic history of Ancien Régime France

The Civilising Process, Decline of Homicide, and Mass Murder Societies: Norbert Elias and the History of Violence

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