Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy

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Hardcover | 13 June 1994

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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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"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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Preface
List of contributors
Writing the history of crime in the Italian Renaissance
Criminal justice in mid fifteenth-century Bologna
The judicial system in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
The incidence of crime in Sicily in the mid fifteenth century: the evidence from composition records
Theology, nature and the law: sexual sin and sexual crime in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century
Practical problems in the enforcement of Italian sumptuary law, 1200-1500 Catherine
The prince, the judges and the law: Cosimo I and sexual violence, 1558
Intervention by church and state in marriage disputes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Florence
The writer and the man: real crimes and mitigating circumstances: Il caso
The political crime of conspiracy in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century
Fighting or flyting?: verbal duelling in mid sixteenth-century
Banditry and lawlessness on the Venetian terraferma in the later cinquecento
Mihi vindictam: aristocratic clans and rural communities in a feud in Friuli in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
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