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This book is a documentation of the research project with the same title. The project was performed as a artistic research and included concerts and stagings, but also surveys that compared Early Modern love songs to ideations of verbal abuse in our own time. The borders between historical and present day were drawn with the artistic freedom that comes with artistic research. It turns out that 400-year-old songs use the same rules as abusive men still do. Songs of love from a man to a woman in seventeenth-century England often contain patterns that today's survivors of domestic violence recognise: to reject a?no, ' accuse, threaten and question the loved one's character. The researcher Katarina A Karlsson has read 755 songs from the time. Among the love songs from a man to a woman, more than half use these rules to varying degrees.