Violence and Justice in Bologna

1250-1700
Herausgeber: Blanshei, Sarah Rubin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781498546331
• ISBN-10: 1498546331
• Artikelnr.: 51155587

Autorenporträt

Sarah Rubin Blanshei is professor of history emerita at Agnes Scott College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Sarah Rubin Blanshei
Abbreviations
Part I: Criminal Justice: Procedures and Practices
Chapter 1: Vendetta, Violence, and Police Power in Thirteenth-Century
Bologna, Gregory Roberts
Chapter 2: Criminal Court Procedure in Late Medieval Bologna: Cultural and
Social Contexts, Massimo Vallerani
Chapter 3: Bolognese Criminal Justice: From Medieval Commune to Renaissance
Signoria, Sarah Rubin Blanshei
Chapter 4: Investigating Homicide: Bologna in the 1450s, Trevor Dean
Chapter 5: Violence and the Centralization of Criminal Justice in Early
Modern Bologna, Colin S. Rose
Part II: Typologies of Violence
Chapter 6: Contra Ribaldos Proditores: From Factional Conflict to Political
Crime in Renaissance Bologna, Sara Cucini
Chapter 7: The "Enormous and Horrendous" Crime of Poisoning: Bologna, ca.
1300-1700, Margaux Buyck
Chapter 8: Accusations of Rape in Thirteenth-Century Bologna, Carol Lansing
Chapter 9: To the Podestà or the Inquisitor? Adjudicating Violence against
God in Bologna, 1250-1450, Me