
Social Control in Europe
Volume 1, 1500-1800
Herman Roodenburg(Author)
Ohio State University Press
Published on 1. August 2004
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-0-8142-0968-4 (ISBN)
Description
This first volume of a two-volume collection of essays provides a comprehensive examination of the idea of social control in the history of Europe. The uniqueness of these volumes lies in two main areas. First, the contributors compare methods of social control on many levels, from police to shaming, church to guilds. Second, they look at these formal and informal institutions as two-way processes. Unlike many studies of social control in the past, the scholars here examine how individuals and groups that are being controlled necessarily participate in and shape the manner in which they are regulated. Hardly passive victims of discipline and control, these folks instead claimed agency in that process, accepting and resisting-and thus molding-the controls under which they functioned. The essays in this volume focus on the interplay of ecclesiastical institutions and the emerging states, examining discipline from a bottom-up perspective.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Columbus, OH
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
788 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8142-0968-4 (9780814209684)
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Herman Roodenburg is a senior researcher at the Meertens Institute, The Netherlands, and professor of cultural history at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Pieter Spierenburg is professor of history at Erasmus University, The Netherlands.