This chapter focuses on homicide and serious interpersonal violence, male on male, in early modern Europe within a global context,
with the aim of making a few tentative comparisons between the well-researched features of European homicide and some things that we know about the rest of the world during the period under examination.
To begin with, the term ‘early modern' needs some scrutiny. As a label for a chronological unit, it originates in European historiography. Traditionally, the early modern period comprises the three centuries between the end of the Middle Ages and the rise of modern industrial societies with mass participation in politics. As is already clear from the preceding chapters, this chronological unit applies much less to the history of many other world regions.To a large extent, my global comparison of the West with the rest covers three arbitrarily chosen centuries and whatever kind of interpersonal violence that we happen to find in them. However, this was the first era of globalisation in which the empires of Europe had a significant impact on rates of violence in other continents, especially on the Americas. And although the impact of European contact was less discernible in other regions of the globe, a comparative analysis of interpersonal violence is a useful way of gauging changes that were taking place in Europe and how far this diverged from patterns in other continents.
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