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Secret sins : sex, violence and society in Carmarthenshire, 1870-1920 / Russell Davies.

Past & present.

The history of violence in England : some observations / J.A.Sharpe.

Explorations in medieval culture

xxiii, 645 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.

Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture / edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.

Fresh wounds : early narratives of Holocaust survival / edited by Donald L. Niewyk.

Violence and aggression in the history of ideas / edited by Philip P. Wiener and John Fisher ; with an introduction by Philip P. Wiener.

The killing compartments : the mentality of mass murder / Abram de Swaan.

Visual culture in early modernity

xiv, 264 pages : black and white illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Death, torture and the broken body in European art, 1300-1650 / edited by John R. Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives.

<p>"What motivates violence? How can good and compassionate people hurt and kill others, or themselves? Why are people much more likely to kill or assault people they know well, rather than strangers? This provocative and radical book shows that people mostly commit violence because they genuinely feel that it is the morally right thing to do. In perpetrators' minds, violence may be the morally necessary and proper way to regulate social relationships according to cultural precepts, precedents and prototypes. These moral motivations apply equally to the violence of the heroes of the Iliad, to parents smacking their child, and many modern murders and everyday acts of violence. Virtuous Violence presents a wide-ranging exploration of violence across different cultures and historical eras, demonstrating how people feel obligated to violently create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships in order to make them right, according to morally motivated cultural ideals"--</p>

Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships : the social-relational, moral motivational psychology, cultural anthropology and history of war, torture, genocide, animal and human sacrifice, obedience to gods, religious self-torture, homicide, robbery, intimate partner conflict, rape, suicide and self-harm, corporal and capital punishment, trial by ordeal and combat, policing, initiation, castration, fighting for status, contac sports and martial arts, honor, the Iliad and the Trojan War, injurious mortuary rites, and homicidal mourning / Alan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai ; with a foreword by Steven Pinker.

Haney Foundation series

Holy war, martyrdom, and terror : Christianity, violence, and the West, ca. 70 C.E. to the Iraq War / Philippe Buc.

xiii, 267 pages : black and white  illustrations ; 24 cm

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Secret sins : sex, violence and society in Carmarthenshire, 1870-1920 / Russell Davies.

The history of violence in England : some observations / J.A.Sharpe.

Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture / edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.

Fresh wounds : early narratives of Holocaust survival / edited by Donald L. Niewyk.

Violence and aggression in the history of ideas / edited by Philip P. Wiener and John Fisher ; with an introduction by Philip P. Wiener.

The killing compartments : the mentality of mass murder / Abram de Swaan.

Death, torture and the broken body in European art, 1300-1650 / edited by John R. Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives.

Holy war, martyrdom, and terror : Christianity, violence, and the West, ca. 70 C.E. to the Iraq War / Philippe Buc.

Sacred violence in early America / Susan Juster.

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Secret sins : sex, violence and society in Carmarthenshire, 1870-1920 / Russell Davies.

The history of violence in England : some observations / J.A.Sharpe.

Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture / edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.

Fresh wounds : early narratives of Holocaust survival / edited by Donald L. Niewyk.

Violence and aggression in the history of ideas / edited by Philip P. Wiener and John Fisher ; with an introduction by Philip P. Wiener.

The killing compartments : the mentality of mass murder / Abram de Swaan.

Death, torture and the broken body in European art, 1300-1650 / edited by John R. Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives.

Holy war, martyrdom, and terror : Christianity, violence, and the West, ca. 70 C.E. to the Iraq War / Philippe Buc.

Sacred violence in early America / Susan Juster.

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