Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy

Author： Trevor Dean; K. J. P. Lowe  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 1994

E-ISBN: 9780511879609

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521411028

Subject： K5 European History

Keyword： 欧洲史

Language： ENG

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Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy

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Drawing on a wide body of internationally-renowned scholars, including a core of Italians, this volume focuses on new material and puts crime and disorder in Renaissance Italy firmly in its political and social context. All stages of the judicial process are addressed, from the drafting of new laws to the rounding-up of bandits. Attention is paid both to common crime and to more historically specific crimes, such as sumptuary laws. Attempts to prevent or suppress disorder in private and public life are analysed, and many different types of crime, from the sexual to the political and from the verbal to the physical, are considered. In sum the volume aims to demonstrate the fundamental importance of crime and disorder for the study of the Italian Renaissance. It is the only single-volume treatment available of the subject in English. Other books have studied crime in a single city, or single types of crime, but few have presented a cross-section of articles which deploy diverse methodological approaches in material from many parts of the peninsula.

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Preface

1 Writing the history of crime in the Italian Renaissance

2 Criminal justice in mid-fifteenth-century Bologna

3 The judicial system in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

4 The incidence of crime in Sicily in the mid fifteenth century: the evidence from composition records

5 Theology, nature and the law: sexual sin and sexual crime in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century

6 Practical problems in the enforcement of Italian sumptuary law, 1200-1500

7 The prince, the judges and the law: Cosimo I and sexual violence, 1558

8 Intervention by church and state in marriage disputes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Florence

9 The writer and the man. Real crimes and mitigating circumstances: il caso Cellini

10 The political crime of conspiracy in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Rome

11 Fighting or flyting? Verbal duelling in mid-sixteenthcentury Italy

12 Banditry and lawlessness on the Venetian Terraferma in the later Cinquecento

13 MM vindictam: aristocratic clans and rural communities in a feud in Friuli in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries

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