Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘What Kind of Monster or Beast Are You?’ Parricide and Patricide in Roman Law and Society

Chapter 3 ‘A Timely Warning to Rash and Diobedient Children’: Violence against Parents in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century England

Chapter 4 Degeneracy and Abuse: Attitudes to Violence Against Parents in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Chapter 5 ‘You Would Have Them Lock Me Up and Sell Me as Slave’: Parents and Children in Long Eighteenth-Century Wallachia

Chapter 7 Unimaginable Crime and Imaginary Criminals: The Thorvald Sletten Matricide Case 1899–1907

Chapter 8 Gender and the Historicity of Parricide: A Case Study from the Nineteenth-Century North American West

Chapter 9 Ambivalent Fatherhood: On Disobedience and Assaults Against Parental Authority in Munich in the Early Seventeenth Century

Chapter 10 Parricide in Nineteenth-Century Finland: Cultures of Violence and a Crisis of Authority

Chapter 11 ‘His Disobedient Son’: Sami Narratives of Parental Authority in Eighteenth-Century Finnmark

Chapter 12 Conclusion