Crime, society, and the law in Renaissance Italy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994. |
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Table of Contents:
- Writing the history of crime in the Italian Renaissance / Trevor Dean and Kate Lowe--Criminal justice in mid-fifteenth-century Bologna / Trevor Dean--The judicial system in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Andrea Zorzi--The incidence of crime in Sicily in the mid fifteenth century: the evidence from composition records / Alan Ryder--Theology, nature and the law: sexual sin and sexual crime in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century / Nicholas Davidson--Practical problems in the enforcement of Italian sumptuary law, 1200-1500 / Catherine Kovesi Killerby--The prince, the judges and the law: Cosimo I and sexual violence, 1558 / Elena Fasano Guarini--Intervention by church and state in marriage disputes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Florence / Daniela Lombardi--The writer and the man. Real crimes and mitigating circumstances: il caso Cellini / Paolo L. Rossi.
- (cont.) The political crime of conspiracy in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Rome / Kate Lowe-- Fighting or flyting? Verbal duelling in mid-sixteenth-century Italy / Donald Weinstein--Banditry and lawlessness on the Venetian Terraferma in the later Cinquecento / Peter Laven--Mihi vindictam: aristocratic clans and rural communities in a feud in Friuli in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries / Furio Bianco.