Corsica is associated in many people's minds with vendetta and banditry, but these phenomena have not been studied systematically. Using accounts by visitors and officials and particularly judicial records, this book provides such a study for the nineteenth century. Accounts of specific feuds lasting over many generations are given, including that which inspired Mérimée's Colomba, and the whole phenomenon is set in its proper context of competition for scarce material resources and power in a traditional agro-pastoral society. Attitudes to death and the dead are examined, and reveal a divergence between local practice and belief and official Christianity, and the persistence of the notion that the spirit of the slain requires to be placated with blood. A general theme is the impact upon an isolated traditional society, and its system of sanctions, of incorporation into a modern state with courts and police.
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Corsica is the third largest Mediterranean island after Sicily and Sardinia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vain pâture, sentenced fugitives, znd session, feuding villages, unspecified village, feuding societies, other feuding, intrafamilial conflict, mercenary bandit, forest offences, gouvernement près, hard labour for life, ist session, patronal festival, deputy justice, vengeance killing, village endogamy, female honour, kin solidarity, oxen belonging, electoral conflict, extreme gestures, departmental council, young herdsman, petition for clemency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Assize Court, Capo Corso, Teodoro Poli, Lorenzi de Bradi, Don Giovanni, Luca-Antono Viterbi, Second Empire, Third Republic, Andrea Spada, Father Bartoli, First World War, Antono Santalucia, Patin de La Fizelière, Antono Colonna, Antono Fieschi, Day of the Dead, Giuseppo Bartoli, Antono Bozzi, Francesco Paoli, Giacomo Bonelli, Ignazio Bozzi, Michelangelo Paoli, Pasquale Poli, Tomaso Lanfranchi, Alessandro Quilichini New!
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Corsica is the third largest Mediterranean island after Sicily and Sardinia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vain pâture, sentenced fugitives, znd session, feuding villages, unspecified village, feuding societies, other feuding, intrafamilial conflict, mercenary bandit, forest offences, gouvernement près, hard labour for life, ist session, patronal festival, deputy justice, vengeance killing, village endogamy, female honour, kin solidarity, oxen belonging, electoral conflict, extreme gestures, departmental council, young herdsman, petition for clemency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Assize Court, Capo Corso, Teodoro Poli, Lorenzi de Bradi, Don Giovanni, Luca-Antono Viterbi, Second Empire, Third Republic, Andrea Spada, Father Bartoli, First World War, Antono Santalucia, Patin de La Fizelière, Antono Colonna, Antono Fieschi, Day of the Dead, Giuseppo Bartoli, Antono Bozzi, Francesco Paoli, Giacomo Bonelli, Ignazio Bozzi, Michelangelo Paoli, Pasquale Poli, Tomaso Lanfranchi, Alessandro Quilichini New!
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