{"product_id":"a-widows-vengeance-after-the-tom-hamilton-9780192870179","title":"A Widow's Vengeance After the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France","description":"Paris, 1599. At the end of the French Wars of Religion, the widow Ren馥 Chevalier instigated the prosecution of the military captain Mathurin Delacanche, who had committed multiple acts of rape, homicide, and theft against the villagers who lived around her ch穰eau near the cathedral city of Sens. But how could Chevalier win her case when King Henri IV's Edict of Nantes ordered that the recent troubles should be forgotten as 'things that had never been'? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion\u003c\/em\u003e is a dramatic account of the impact of the troubles on daily life. Based on neglected archival sources and an exceptional criminal trial, it recovers the experiences of women, peasants, and foot soldiers, who are marginalized in most historical studies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTom Hamilton shows how this trial contributed to a wider struggle for justice and an end to violence in postwar France. People throughout the society of the Old Regime did not consider rape and pillage as inevitable consequences of war, and denounced soldiers' illicit violence when they were given the chance. As a result, the early modern laws of war need to be understood not only as the idealistic invention of great legal thinkers, but also as a practical framework that enabled magistrates to do justice for plaintiffs and witnesses, like Chevalier and the villagers who lived under her protection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192870173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192870179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Tom Hamilton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45482645586175,"sku":"9780192870179","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f079a64c-62d0-4a52-b487-8e9397a9548c.jpg?v=1715999134","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-widows-vengeance-after-the-tom-hamilton-9780192870179","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}