Format:
1 online resource (301 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781498546348
Content:
This collection examines crime and punishment in medieval and early modern Bologna. Drawing from the city's singularly rich archival resources and employing a variety of perspectives, the contributors analyze various types of violence and place the city's institutions of criminal justice within their social, political, and cultural contexts.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- A Note About the Editor -- 1: Criminal Justice: Procedures and Practices -- 1 Vendetta, Violence, and Police Power in Thirteenth-Century Bologna -- 2 Criminal Court Procedure in Late Medieval Bologna -- 3 Bolognese Criminal Justice -- 4 Investigating Homicide -- 5 Violence and the Centralization of Criminal Justice in Early Modern Bologna -- 2: Typologies of Violence -- 6 Contra Ribaldos Proditores -- 7 The "Enormous and Horrendous" Crime of Poisoning -- 8 Accusations of Rape in Thirteenth-Century Bologna -- 9 To the Podestà or the Inquisitor? -- 10 Student Violence in Late Medieval and Early Modern Bologna -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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Additional Edition:
9781498546331
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781498546331
Language:
English
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