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The advent of total war
Conference
Published on
09 October 2014
Updated on
19 June 2017
Colloquia
The Archaeology of Violence
International colloquium organized by Inrap and the Museum of Louvre-Lens.
October 2, 3 and 4, 2104 at La Scène du Louvre-Lens
The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence
Chair : David El Kenz, university of Bourgogne
Senior lecturer in modern history at the University of Burgundy, visiting lecturer at the University of Geneva and member of the UMR-CNRS 5605.
David El Kenz, who defended a thesis in 1995 on Protestant and Catholic martyrdom, focuses on religious strife in 16th-century Europe. For around 10 years he has researched extreme violence in the context of the Wars of Religion and, more generally, the historiography of massacres.
Bibliography
David El Kenz, who defended a thesis in 1995 on Protestant and Catholic martyrdom, focuses on religious strife in 16th-century Europe. For around 10 years he has researched extreme violence in the context of the Wars of Religion and, more generally, the historiography of massacres.
Bibliography
- Avec François-Xavier Nérard, (dir.), Commémorer les victimes en Europe du XVIe siècle à nos jours, Seyssel, Champ Vallon, 2011.
- « Le "massacre" est-il né aux guerres de Religion ? », La Révolution Française, Cahiers de l'Institut d'histoire de la Révolution française, n° 3, décembre 2010, (http://lrf.revues.org/index185.html)
- (Dir.), Le Massacre, objet d'histoire, Paris, Gallimard, 2005, 560 p (trad. italienne Il Massacro nella storia, ed. Utet, 2008).
- « Massacre » et « Massacres during the Wars of Religion », Jacques Sémelin (dir.), Online Encyclopdia of Mass Violence, (http ://www.massviolence.org), 2008.