A renaissance of violence : homicide in early modern Italy / Colin Rose.
Based on a close examination of more than 700 homicide trials, A Renaissance of Violence exposes the deep social instability at the core of the early modern states of North Italy. Following a series of crises in the early seventeenth century, interpersonal violence in the region grew to frightening...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Figures; Maps; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The Scene of the Crime: Seventeenth-Century Bologna; Interpreting Early Modern Violence; Ritual and Performance; The Civilizing Process; Social Strategists; Cultures of Violence and Peacemaking; Men, Women and Children; Defining and Prosecuting Homicide; The Shape of Homicide in Early Modern Bologna; 2 The Tower of Justice; Introduction; Procedure; The Public Trust: Reforming the Torrone; State Homicide: Executions, 1600-1700; Conclusion
- 3 Homicide in Bologna, 1600-1700Introduction; Characteristics of Homicide in 1600; 1610 and 1620: A Peaceful City, a Blood-Soaked Plain; General Characteristics of Homicide in 1632; Homicides in 1640, 1652 and 1660: Civil War Brewing; 1670, 1680 and 1690: A Sharp Decline; 1700: At Century's End; A Century Retrospective: The Parabola of Violence; 4 Gender and Homicide in Early Modern Bologna; Introduction; Gender, Honour and Violence; Homicides of Women; Homicides by Women; Infanticide; Conclusion; 5 The Days after No Future: Post-Plague Homicides in Rural Bologna; Introduction
- The World Turned Upside-Down: Bernardino Spada's Failed Efforts to Combat the Plague, and the Expansion of the Torrone's AuthorityPost-plague Homicides in the Bolognese contado: Poverty, Disillusion and Revenge; Conclusion; 6 It's Good to Have Land: The Defence of Noble Privilege through Violence; Introduction: The Death of a Judge; Nobility, Redefined: Torrone Legislation on Factionalism and Weapons; Urban Homicides in the Wake of the Plague: The Nobility React; Elite Feuding and Common Struggles: Case Studies from the War; Assassination in Castel Bolognese
- The War Comes to Bologna: The Murder of Paris Maria de' GrassiConclusion; 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index