Mucchielli (Laurent), Spierenburg (Pieter), Histoire de l’homicide en Europe. De la fin du Moyen Âge à nos jours

This volume with eleven contributions of leading scholars in their fields is a most welcome and important contribution to the growing field of historical violence research. It is based on a seminar held at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 2007 and provides an excellent overview of innovative research on the history of homicide across Europe. The eleven contributions to the volume can be subdivided into three parts. The first part consists of three papers that cover the period from the 1..