Trevor Dean / K. J. P. Lowe (eds.)

Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy

Herausgeber: Dean, Trevor; Lowe, K. J. P.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume puts crime and disorder in Renaissance Italy firmly in its political and social context. The contributors include English, Italian, American and Australian scholars. The volume focuses on new material and addresses all stages in the judicial process from the drafting of laws to the rounding up of bandits. The articles range geographically across most of the peninsula. This is the only single-volume treatment available on the subject in English.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9780521411028
• ISBN-10: 0521411025
• Artikelnr.: 21842528

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; List of contributors; 1. Writing the history of crime in the
Italian Renaissance Trevor Dean and Kate Lowe; 2. Criminal justice in mid
fifteenth-century Bologna Trevor Dean; 3. The judicial system in Florence
in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Andrea Zorzi; 4. The incidence of
crime in Sicily in the mid fifteenth century: the evidence from composition
records Alan Ryder; 5. Theology, nature and the law: sexual sin and sexual
crime in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century Nicholas
Davidson; 6. Practical problems in the enforcement of Italian sumptuary
law, 1200-1500 Catherine Kovesi Killerby; 7. The prince, the judges and the
law: Cosimo I and sexual violence, 1558 Elena Fasano Guarini; 8.
Intervention by church and state in marriage disputes in sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century Florence Daniela Lombardi; 9. The writer and the man:
real crimes and mitigating circumstances: Il caso Cellini Paolo Rossi; 10.
The political crime of conspiracy in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Rome
Kate Lowe; 11. Fighting or flyting?: verbal duelling in mid
sixteenth-century Italy Donald Weinstein; 12. Banditry and lawlessness on
the Venetian terraferma in the later cinquecento Peter Laven; 13. Mihi
vindictam: aristocratic clans and rural communities in a feud in Friuli in
the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries Furio Bianco.