Crime, society, and the law in Renaissance Italy / edited by Trevor Dean and K.J.P. Lowe.

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Other Authors: Dean, Trevor, Lowe, K. J. P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Table of Contents:
  • Writing the history of crime in the Italian Renaissance / Trevor Dean and Kate Lowe
  • Criminal justice in mid-fifteenth-century Bologna / Trevor Dean
  • The judicial system in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Andrea Zorzi
  • The incidence of crime in Sicily in the mid fifteenth century: the evidence from composition records / Alan Ryder
  • Theology, nature and the law: sexual sin and sexual crime in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century / Nicholas Davidson
  • Practical problems in the enforcement of Italian sumptuary law, 1200-1500 / Catherine Kovesi Killerby
  • The prince, the judges and the law: Cosimo I and sexual violence, 1558 / Elena Fasano Guarini
  • Intervention by church and state in marriage disputes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Florence / Daniela Lombardi
  • The writer and the man. Real crimes and mitigating circumstances: il caso Cellini / Paolo L. Rossi
  • The political crime of conspiracy in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Rome / Kate Lowe
  • Fighting or flyting? Verbal duelling in mid-sixteenth-century Italy / Donald Weinstein
  • Banditry and lawlessness on the Venetian Terraferma in the later Cinquecento / Peter Laven
  • Mihi vindictam: aristocratic clans and rural communities in a feud in Friuli in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries / Furio Bianco.