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Honor and Violence in Golden Age Spain Hardcover - 2008

by Scott K. Taylor


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Early modern Spain has long been viewed as having a culture obsessed with honor, where a man resorted to violence when his or his wife's honor was threatened, especially through sexual disgrace. This book--the first to closely examine honor and interpersonal violence in the era--overturns this idea, arguing that the way Spanish men and women actually behaved was very different from the behavior depicted in dueling manuals, law books, and "honor plays" of the period.

Drawing on criminal and other records to assess the character of violence among non-elite Spaniards, historian Scott K. Taylor finds that appealing to honor was a rhetorical strategy, and that insults, gestures, and violence were all part of a varied repertoire that allowed both men and women to decide how to dispute issues of truth and reputation.

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  • Title Honor and Violence in Golden Age Spain
  • Author Scott K. Taylor
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven & London
  • Date 2008-11-01
  • ISBN 9780300126853 / 0300126859
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Spanish
  • Library of Congress subjects Dueling - Spain - History, Criminal law - Spain - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008008391
  • Dewey Decimal Code 345.460

About the author

Scott K. Taylor is associate professor of history at Siena College. He lives in Albany, NY.

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