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The sensationalism of violence, the acts of violence performed, and the handling of the crimes.
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History 358B 1-28-04 "A widespread belief in Denmark and Germany that drinking the blood of the executed cured epilepsy" epitomizes the violent nature of the modern European people portrayed in Julius R. Ruff's Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800. However uncivilized and foreign the practices of these people may seem many similarities can be drawn to today's violence in the United States. The sensationalism of violence, the acts of violence performed, and the handling of the crimes show how little has changed. Differences in literacy and technology have not changed the human interest in crime and violence nor those feeding them. Illiteracy was prevalent in the Early Modern Europe, however, this did not stop the communication of shocking tales of crime, violence, and execution throughout the period. The unlettered received its information through songs, ballads, and oral reports, while broadsheets, pamphlets, small books, and newspapers supplied the literate with even suggestions of mass...
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