Feuding, conflict, and banditry in nineteenth-century Corsica:

Corsica is associated in many people's minds with vendetta and banditry, but these phenomena have not been studied systematically. Using accounts by visitors and officials and particularly judicial records, this book provides such a study for the nineteenth century. Accounts of specific feuds l...

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Main Author: Wilson, Stephen 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1988
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523557
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523557
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523557
Summary:Corsica is associated in many people's minds with vendetta and banditry, but these phenomena have not been studied systematically. Using accounts by visitors and officials and particularly judicial records, this book provides such a study for the nineteenth century. Accounts of specific feuds lasting over many generations are given, including that which inspired Mérimée's Colomba, and the whole phenomenon is set in its proper context of competition for scarce material resources and power in a traditional agro-pastoral society. Attitudes to death and the dead are examined, and reveal a divergence between local practice and belief and official Christianity, and the persistence of the notion that the spirit of the slain requires to be placated with blood. A general theme is the impact upon an isolated traditional society, and its system of sanctions, of incorporation into a modern state with courts and police
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Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 565 pages)
ISBN:9780511523557
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511523557

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