Parricide and Violence Against Parents throughout History

1. Introduction
Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo

Part I. Normative Concepts

2. ‘What Kind of Monster or Beast Are You?’ Parricide and Patricide in Roman Law and Society
Barbara Biscotti

3. ‘A Timely Warning to Rash and Diobedient Children’: Violence against Parents in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century England
James Sharpe

4. Degeneracy and Abuse: Attitudes to Violence Against Parents in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Marianna Muravyeva

Part II. Historicising Violence Against Parents: Localities and Identities

5. ‘You Would Have Them Lock Me Up and Sell Me as Slave’: Parents and Children in Long Eighteenth-Century Wallachia
Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu

6. From Confession to Declaration: Changing Narratives of Parricide in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Katie Barclay

7. Unimaginable Crime and Imaginary Criminals: The Thorvald Sletten Matricide Case 1899–1907
Silje Warberg

8. Gender and the Historicity of Parricide: A Case Study from the Nineteenth-Century North American West
Peter Boag

Part III. Struggling with Parental Authority in Early Modern and Modern Societies

9. Ambivalent Fatherhood: On Disobedience and Assaults Against Parental Authority in Munich in the Early Seventeenth Century
Satu Lidman

10. Parricide in Nineteenth-Century Finland: Cultures of Violence and a Crisis of Authority
Raisa Maria Toivo

11. ‘His Disobedient Son’: Sami Narratives of Parental Authority in Eighteenth-Century Finnmark
Liv Helene Willumsen

12. Conclusion
Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo

Keywords: History, History of Early Modern Europe, Social History, Crime and Society, History of Modern Europe, History of Medieval Europe