Distribución de los casos de violencia interpersonal en la Navarra moderna (siglos XVI-XVII) [Distribution of Interpersonal Violence Cases in Early Modern Navarre (XVIth and XVIIth Centuries)]

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Abstract

Historians attracted to folk culture, and the ones interested in the development of the early modern society, have paid special attention to the violence phenomenon. Violence studies have helped historians to analyze and comprehend the popular moral and mentality. Moreover, those dissertations have helped to understand the changes the elite’s worldview during the Old Regime. This article’s aim is to analyze this urban community phenomenon according to the obtained data from the kingdom of Navarre. This kingdom generated a significant number of archived judicial documents. Those have facilitated research studies about interpersonal violence, its evolution in quantity and quality, and the comparison with other Spanish and European territories.