Introduction; Marianna Muravyeva and Raisa Toivo -- PART 1: NORMATIVE CONCEPTS AND FAMILY AUTHORITY -- 'What Kind of Monster or Beast are You?' Parricide and Patricide in Roman Law and Society; Barbara Biscotti -- 'A timely warning to rash and disobedient children': Normative Literature and Violence against Parents in England, 1600-1800; Jim Sharpe -- Degeneracy and Abuse: Attitudes to Violence against Parents in Nineteenth-Century Russia -- PART 2: HISTORICISING VIOLENCE AGAINST PARENTS: LOCALITIES AND IDENTITIES -- 'You would have them lock me up and sell me as slave': Parents and Children in Eighteenth-Century Wallachia; Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu -- From Confession to Declaration: Parricide in Scotland, 1660 to 1830; Katie Barclay -- Unimaginable Crime and Imaginary Criminals: The Thorvald Sletten Matricide Case, 1899-1907; Silje Warberg -- Gender and the Historicity of Parricide: A Case Study from the Nineteenth-Century North American West; Peter Boag -- PART 3: STRUGGLING WITH PARENTAL AUTHORITY IN EARLY MODERN AND MODERN SOCIETIES -- Ambivalent Fatherhood: On Disobedience and Assaults against Parental Authority in Munich in the Early Seventeenth Century; Satu Lidman -- Parricide in nineteenth-century Finland: Cultures of Violence and a Crisis of Authority; Raisa Maria Toivo -- 'His Disobedient Son': Sami Narratives of Parental Authority in Eighteenth-Century Finnmark; Liv Helene Willumsen -- Conclusion; Marianna Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Toivo -- Index.