
Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy
- Editors:
- Trevor Dean, Roehampton Institute, London
- K. J. P. Lowe, University of Birmingham
- Date Published: April 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521411028
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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.
Read more- A lively and original collection of essays which set various aspects of crime and deviance in their social and political context
- Covers a wide variety of crime, from administrative to sexual
- Fields a distinguished cast-list of some of the most exciting younger scholars now working on the Italian Renaissance
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- Date Published: April 1994
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521411028
- length: 296 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.563kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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