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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 October 2009
      14 April 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511523410
      9780521411028
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523410
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.563kg, 296 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Legal History, Area Studies, Law, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
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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.

    Reviews

    "The diversity of approaches and the variations in geographical and chronological focus give this volume considerable richness and strength." The Sixteenth Century Journal

    "There is incorporated here a wealth of new ideas....the Dean/Lowe work is a mine of new thinking about Renaissance crime as well as methodology....While representing still another in the myriad of recent studies of crime in history, this work is proof that something useful, even intriguing, can be distilled from even a well-worked topic." Albert J. Schmidt

    "...A welcome addition to the scholary understanding of the various permutations and developments of late medieval and early modern marriage." Religious Studies Review

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