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Violence and Justice in Bologna - 1250-1700 (Hardcover)
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Violence and Justice in Bologna - 1250-1700 (Hardcover)
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This collection of essays offers a unique contribution to the study
of violence and justice in a late medieval and early modern Italy
by combining a multivocal perspective with a case-study focus on
the city-state of Bologna. Drawing on the city's singularly rich
archival resources, the authors explore various facets of
violence-ranging from the interpersonal to the less frequently
studied typologies of blasphemy, rape, political rebellion, and
student brawls-and set the institutions of the police and law
courts into their socio-political and cultural contexts. They also
apply a broad variety of quantitative and qualitative
approaches-processual, microhistorical, legalism, comparative and
criminological-to their assessments of the procedures and practices
of criminal justice and the experiences of violent behavior,
providing both short-term, in-depth analyses of specific events and
over-arching reviews of long-term trends. Bologna itself, with its
renowned university, economic innovations, strategic importance as
a commercial and cultural crossroads, its political volatility and
experiments with diverse constitutional structures, provides a
rewarding laboratory for analyzing changes and continuities in late
medieval and early modern violence and justice. From these studies
emerges a narrative that challenges the traditional portrayal of
those periods as eras when brutality and rage were "normal" in
social relations and criminal justice was characterized mainly by
punitive strategies of torture and repression.
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