Murder in Renaissance Italy

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder and its cultural presences across the Italian peninsula in the Renaissance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781316501962
• ISBN-10: 1316501965
• Artikelnr.: 59330432

Inhaltsangabe

Introducing Renaissance killers Trevor Dean and K. J. P. Lowe; Part I.
Domestic Murder: 1. The first murder: the representation of Cain and Abel
in Bologna, Florence and Bergamo Scott Nethersole; 2. Knives and poisons:
stereotypes of male vendetta and female perfidy in late Medieval Sicily,
1293-1460 Henri Bresc; 3. A daughter-killing digested, and accepted (Sabine
district of Rome, 1563 to 1566) Thomas V. Cohen; Part II: Ordinary Murder:
4. Eight varieties of homicide: Bologna in the 1340s and 1440s Trevor Dean;
5. Homicide in a culture of hatred: Bologna, 1352-1420 Sarah Rubin
Blanshei; Part III. Sensational Murder: 6. Truths and lies of a renaissance
murder: Duke Alessandro de' Medici's death between history, narrative and
memory Stefano Dall'Aglio; 7. 'O Facinus Inauditum' (O horrendous crime):
anthropophagy in Renaissance Milan Silvio Leydi; 8. Murder ballads:
singing, hearing, writing and reading about murder in Renaissance Italy
Rosa Salzberg and Massimo Rospocher; Part IV. Unclassifiable Murder: 9.
Redrawing the line between murder and suicide in Renaissance Italy K. J. P.
Lowe; 10. Violent conflicts and murder involving Jews in Renaissance Italy
Anna Esposito; 11. Poison and poisoning in Renaissance Italy Alessandro
Pastore; Part V. Professional Murder: 12. Mass murder in sacks during the
Italian wars, 1494-1559 Stephen Bowd; 13. Legal homicide: the death penalty
in the Italian Renaissance Enrica Guerra; 14. Butchers as murderers in
Renaissance Italy C. D. Dickerson, III.