Violence seigneuriale en Languedoc : le cas du comté de Melgueil (xie-xiie siècles) by Alexandre Vergos

“…This violence is subject to some limitations and takes the form of property damage or capture rather than murder. The social pressure, notably from common friends, ends it by inviting the warring parties to a compromise where the stated goal is the grudges’ settlement.…”
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The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 28 June 1914 by Meryem, Günaydın

“…Sunday, June 28, 1914, the world will change in the days of a political murder was carried out. Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Sarajevo visit with his wife and both died as a result of an assassination. …”
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La clausura del pasado. Los conflictos del cono sur de América by Juan Rial

“…Latin American dictatorships all practiced some form of "dirty war", that entailed the disappearance of persons, murder and torture, to fight people engaged in armed propaganda or open insurrections taking place in the seventies. …”
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Respek vir die lewe en die doodstraf volgens die perspektief van Genesis 9:5-6 by P. Verster

“…In postmodern society it is considered inhumane to execute persons who committed murder. In this article different views are discussed and it is suggested that, according to Genesis 9:5, respect for life is absolute and that, although the death penalty is not explicitly mentioned, it provides an argument for upholding respect for life. …”
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Telling About Southern Fluctuations: Elizabeth Spencer at the Back Door by Gérald PRÉHER

“…The novel, reminiscent of William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust (1948), stages the search for a culprit after the murder of a white man. This paper focuses on Spencer’s portrait of southern manners and interracial relationships and analyzes the novel in the context of its publication. …”
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A Terrific New World: Polar Space in the Narrative, Journals and Letters of John Franklin’s First Arctic Expedition (1819-22) by Nicoletta BRAZZELLI

“…Franklin’s first exploration of the Northern coast of Canada captured the public imagination thanks to his Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-22, published in 1823, which conveys the drama of an expedition plagued by harsh weather, bad planning, starvation and even murder. Franklin’s journals and letters written during the expedition, by focusing on planning details and material conditions of travel itself throw fresh light on his much debated mission. …”
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Grand âge et jugement tardif ? Le « boucher de Gênes » dans les chroniques judiciaires et la mémoire collective au début des années 2000 by Martin Göllnitz

“…This was the name given by the international media to the SS officer Friedrich Engel, who was responsible for several massacres in Italy and the murder of at least 246 people. With the verdict of the Federal Supreme Court, one of the few criminal proceedings for war crimes in Italy that took place in German courts ended without a verdict. …”
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Du presque-rien au presque-tout : le dévoilement de l’invisible dans Trifles (1916) de Susan Glaspell by Emeline JOUVE

“…A crime has been committed in the Wrights’ farm and the representatives of the law, accompanied by the wives, have come to find evidence to convict Mrs. Wright of the murder of her husband. In this detective play, the chiaroscuro effect appears as a principle which structures this work in which the playwright literalizes the metaphor of social invisibility to denounce patriarchal oppression and encourage the audience to reflect upon the mechanisms underpinning the norms on which the society of the beginning of the 20th century was based.…”
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Violencia y mujer en Granada en la primera mitad del siglo xvii by Miguel Luis López-Guadalupe Muñoz

“…He also highlights the events in which a woman has been the victim or the author of violence, especially in murder cases. His brief narrative contains personal observations. …”
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O parricídio como espetáculo da violência: O dia em que matei meu pai by Aileen El-Kadi

“…The first person narrative voice in the novel by Mario Sabino, O dia em que matei meu pai, builds an universe composed of two coordinates, one follows the logic of subjective pleasure/perversion where the characters show social pathology des- cribed by the narrator as a result of a context governed by psychological violence and amorality, and where the dynamics is always erotic, the other component is spectacular as the axis from which the characters seem to represent roles built based on stereotypes that arise from mass culture. The father’s murder by the protagonist and the way he confesses the crime at the beginning of the novel com- bine the two core values we find in the author’s aesthetic proposed: the amount of violence and spectacle for the representation of contemporary society.…”
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Wilde’s French Salomé by Emily Eells

“…It argues that Wilde adopted the foreign language as a strategy for representing the taboo of incestuous and homoerotic desire, murder and necrophilia. His aesthetic objective was to produce a work belonging to the school of French decadentism and adhering to its principles of symbolism. …”
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Le chemin de fer entre XIXe et XXe siècle : manifestations de l’inquiétude se penchant vers la folie pendant le voyage en train et à la gare by Tommaso Meldolesi

“…Between XIXth and XXth century railways becomes the place of incertitude, violence, murder and lower perspective for the future, until the beginning of the First World War.…”
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Le massacre des Innocents ou comment réécrire l’histoire by Édith Parmentier

“…We then consider the historical framework of the Hellenistic kingdoms of the Near East, whose brutal dynastic practices lent credibility to the murder of children in Judea. Finally, the Greco-Roman cultural environment which transmitted this fiction in Antiquity turned it into a commonplace, amalgamating themes of various origins in accordance with the typical phenomenon of black legends. …”
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Translating Transgressions in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: by Joutha Monisha

“… Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a 2009 murder-mystery novel written by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk and translated to english by Antonia Llyod-Jones in 2018. …”
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Ruinscapes and Subversion of Temporalities in For the Mercy of Water by Şevket Sarper Dörter

“…For the Mercy of Water is the story of a writer travelling to an unnamed, abandoned countryside, in an imagined Global Southern country, to interview an old woman identified as “Mother” after the murder of the young girls by the water security guards of “the company.” …”
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Singing complaintes criminelles across Europe by Una McIlvenna

“…Everywhere we find that murder remains the most common subject, but that the numbers of victims are usually much higher in German songs. …”
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The Contested Terrain of Historical Memory in Contemporary Mississippi by Nan Elizabeth WOODRUFF

“…Recently, black and white Mississippians have sought to confront and redress their history by forming interracial coalitions in communities where horrendous crimes occurred; by holding public debates over historical symbols surrounding the Confederacy, slavery, and civil rights; by attempting to reopen old civil rights murder cases; and by working to change the history curriculum in the public schools. …”
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Disrupting my whiteness towards inhabiting a race equity coaching perspective: A self-inquiry into race, whiteness, and its impact on my coaching practice by Fenella Trevillion

“…In May 2020, global attention was on George Floyd’s murder. As a white person coaching people of colour, my response to this systemic racism was to draw attention to racism and coaching and bring my practice and values around race equity into greater alignment. …”
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(Des)memória e catástrofe: considerações sobre a literatura pós-golpe de 1964 by Ettore Finazzi-Agrò

“…In this context, the stories – told by many authors and some of the survivors of repression – seem to play an important role in supplying the deficiencies of the History, in order to show, effectively even if through fiction, the nefas that characterized in particular torture and murder of opponents. The status of literature – his ability to say what is forbidden to historiography, the possibility of recreating the real through imagination – drove, in fact, many writers to witness the horror and violence that marked the regime established in Brazil fifty years ago, even giving us the “physical” representation of pain and blood generated by a power acting in a “state of exception”.…”
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Renaissance à Bulawayo, Zimbabwe : la ville dans The Stone Virgins de Yvonne Vera by Marie-Jeanne Gauffre

“…In post-independence, violence-ridden Zimbabwe, Yvonne Vera’s main character in The Stone Virgins (2002), Nonceba, slowly returns to life after witnessing her sister’s murder and enduring brutal rape herself in their village. …”
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