Table of Contents
Introduction: Violence and Punishment within Civilizing Processes page 1
PART ONE Violence
1 Long-Term Trends in Homicide: Amsterdam, Fifteenth–Twentieth Centuries 19
2 Homicide and the Law in the Dutch Republic: A Peaceful Country? 39
3 Violence and Culture: Bloodshed in Two or Three Worlds 57
PART TWO Punishment and Social Control
4 Punishment, Power and History: Foucault and Elias 75
5 Monkey Butt’s Mate: On Informal Social Control, Standards of Violence and Notions of Privacy 92
6 "The Green, Green Grass of Home:" Refl ections on Capital Punishment and the Penal System in Europe and America from a Long-Term Perspective 104
PART THREE Civilizing the Body in Human History
7 Elites and Etiquette: Changing Standards of Personal Conduct in the Netherlands until 1800 129
8 Civilizing Celebrations: An Exploration of the Festive Universe 151
9 The Body’s End: Death and Paradise in Human History 163
Epilogue: A Personal Recollection of Norbert Elias and How I Became a Crime Historian 174
Notes 181
Archival Sources 200
Bibliography 201
Index 221