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Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates
how, from the eleventh century onwards, many Italian towns achieved
independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising
power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual
'tyrants' took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of
a precocious, and very well-documented, experiment in republican
self-government. In this new edition, Trevor Dean has expanded the
book's treatment of women and gender, the early history of the
communes and the lives of non-elites. Focusing on the typical
medium-sized towns rather than the better-known cities, the authors
draw on a rich variety of contemporary material, both documentary
and literary, to portray the world of the communes, illustrating
the patriotism and public spirit as well as the equally
characteristic factional strife which was to tear them apart.
Discussion of the artistic and social lives of the inhabitants
shows how these towns were the seedbed of the cultural achievements
of the early Renaissance. The Bibliography has been updated to a
list of Further Reading with the latest scholarship for students to
continue their studies. Both students and the general reader
interested in Italian history, literature and art will find this
accessible book a rewarding and fascinating read.
Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates
how, from the eleventh century onwards, many Italian towns achieved
independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising
power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual
'tyrants' took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of
a precocious, and very well-documented, experiment in republican
self-government. In this new edition, Trevor Dean has expanded the
book's treatment of women and gender, the early history of the
communes and the lives of non-elites. Focusing on the typical
medium-sized towns rather than the better-known cities, the authors
draw on a rich variety of contemporary material, both documentary
and literary, to portray the world of the communes, illustrating
the patriotism and public spirit as well as the equally
characteristic factional strife which was to tear them apart.
Discussion of the artistic and social lives of the inhabitants
shows how these towns were the seedbed of the cultural achievements
of the early Renaissance. The Bibliography has been updated to a
list of Further Reading with the latest scholarship for students to
continue their studies. Both students and the general reader
interested in Italian history, literature and art will find this
accessible book a rewarding and fascinating read.
What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and
one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a
spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to
marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black Death?
From Aberdeen to Cracow and from Stockholm to Sardinia, Trevor Dean
ranges widely throughout medieval Europe in this exiting and
innovative history of lawlessness and criminal justice. Drawing on
the real-life stories of ordinary men and women who often found
themselves at the sharp end of the law, he shows how it was often
one rule for the rich and another for the poor in a tangled web of
judicial corruption.
This ambitious survey of lawlessness and legal retribution in medieval Europe ranges across the continent and Britain. Providing much-needed synthesis of recent research and scholarship, Crime in Medieval Europe, 2e, presents case studies to open up areas for discussion and debate, draws attention to changing attitudes to and definitions of crime and examines social relations context in which crimes were committed. Trevor Dean uses court records to illuminate the lives of ordinary men and women, who often found themselves at the sharp end of law. Drawing on the proliferation of new sources now available on the subject, this is an original account of the creation, extension and aggravation of criminal law and its penalties, and the effects and responses they generated.
A collection that celebrates the research of Margaret Spufford, a
"game-changing" historian who shifted the focus away from the
political and social elite in urban communities to the "other 98%"
in local and rural areas. This collection celebrates and evaluates
the seminal research of Margaret Spufford, a leading historian of
early modern English social and economic history. Spufford played a
crucial role in the broadening of English social and cultural
history, shifting the focus away from the political and social
elite in urban communities to the "other 98%" in local and rural
areas and challenging assumptions about the limited intellectual
worlds of rural people. She was also an early historian of
consumption patterns, whose work on the clothing trade remains the
authoritative history of this industry and its consumers. Faith,
Place and People in Early Modern England reassesses Spufford's
contribution to the shape of historical study. Each chapter
rethinks a key aspect of her work on local and rural communities:
the value of particular historical records; the interactions
between religious conformists anddissenters; social and religious
change; credit and finance; clothing and consumption. Throughout,
the contributors develop Spufford's model of integrating close
community studies into a broader picture, while retaining an
awareness of the singularity of individuals and localities. In
doing so, the book indicates how far "Spuffordian" approaches can
continue to shape the future direction of early modern history .
TREVOR DEAN is Professor of History at the University of
Roehampton; GLYN PARRY is Professor of Early Modern History at the
University of Roehampton; EDWARD VALLANCE is Professor of Early
Modern British political culture at the University of Roehampton.
Contributors: ADRIAN AILES, DAVID CRESSY, TREVOR DEAN, CATHERINE
FERGUSON, HENRY FRENCH, STEVE HINDLE, CHRISTOPHER MARSH, GLYN
PARRY, WILLIAM SHEILS, PETER SPUFFORD, DANAE TANKARD, EDWARD
VALLANCE, PATRICIA WYLLIE
The towns of Italy in the later middle ages presents over one
hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated
from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of
the European Middle Ages. No other English language sourcebook has
the same geographical or chronological range. This collection is
carefully structured around the crisis of the fourteenth century
and arranged in contrasting groups of texts. By connecting
documents in translation to recent scholarship and debates, it
addresses five key areas of medieval urban history: the physical
environment, civic religion, economy, society and politics. Offers
students well-translated and effectively contextualised documents
along with some guidance to the secondary work of Italian scholars
which is largely inaccessible to undergraduate students. -- .
This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder, and
its cultural presences, across the Italian peninsula between 1350
and 1650. These shape the content in different ways: the faces of
homicide range from the ordinary to the sensational, from the
professional to the accidental, from the domestic to the public;
while the cultural presence of homicide is revealed through new
studies of sculpture, paintings, and popular literature. Dealing
with a range of murders, and informed by the latest criminological
research on homicide, it brings together new research by an
international team of specialists on a broad range of themes:
different kinds of killers (by gender, occupation, and situation);
different kinds of victim (by ethnicity, gender, and status); and
different kinds of evidence (legal, judicial, literary, and
pictorial). It will be an indispensable resource for students of
Renaissance Italy, late medieval/early modern crime and violence,
and homicide studies.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
This book brings together challenging new essays from some of the
leaders in Italian scholarship in three countries, to show the
range of work that is currently being done not only on Florence but
also on Naples, Ferrara and Lucca and on the relationship between
cities and countryside.
It is rarely possible to write biographies of lay people who lived
in the Middle Ages. While accounts of clerical, royal, and military
life are many, the wider populace has remained in relative
obscurity. In Clean Hands and Rough Justice: An Investigating
Magistrate in Renaissance Italy, David S. Chambers and Trevor Dean
present an extraordinary and previously unknown character from
Renaissance Italy, Beltramino Cusadri (ca. 1425 1500). This judge
was known as the ""terrible commissioner,"" and he spent most of
his professional life acting as criminal investigator and legal
adviser to two princely dynasties the Gonzaga of Mantua and the
Este of Ferrara. The authors investigate and compare the judicial
institutions and social conditions in which he worked, the criminal
cases that he investigated, and his successes and failures. Their
combined presentation of the figure and mentality of Beltramino
amounts to something unprecedented in Italian Renaissance
historiography: the portrait of a professional man, employed to
combat rising crime but accused of corruption and tyranny by the
entrenched interests that he faced. The book follows the major
phases of Beltramino's career along with a broader exploration of
the legal history of Renaissance Italy. In his long life Beltramino
Cusadri wrote hundreds of letters to his employers, and it is upon
these letters that this book is based. These letters, with their
wry, colorfully worded expressions, are liberally quoted and
provide unique insight into the career, activity, and attitudes of
a major Renaissance bureaucrat. The letters of his employers in
return, and of many other judges and officials, along with the
evidence of legislation and prosecution, are also drawn upon to
examine a variety of themes, from the progress of lawmaking and the
pattern of criminality, to the problems of policing and the
changing forms of punishment.
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.
In this important study, Trevor Dean examines the history of crime
and criminal justice in Italy from the mid-thirteenth to the end of
the fifteenth century. The book contains studies of the most
frequent types of prosecuted crime such as violence, theft and
insult, along with the rarely prosecuted sorcery and sex crimes.
Drawing on a diverse and innovative range of sources, including
legislation, legal opinions, prosecutions, chronicles and works of
fiction, Dean demonstrates how knowledge of the history of criminal
justice can illuminate our wider understanding of the Middle Ages.
Issues and instruments of criminal justice reflected the structure
and operation of state power; they were an essential element in the
evolution of cities and they provided raw material for fictions.
Furthermore, the study of judicial records provides insight into a
wide range of social situations, from domestic violence to the
oppression of ethnic minorities.
In this important new study, Trevor Dean examines the history of
crime and criminal justice in Italy from the mid-thirteenth to the
end of the fifteenth century. The book contains studies of the most
frequent types of prosecuted crime such as violence, theft and
insult, along with the rarely prosecuted sorcery and sex crimes.
Drawing on a diverse and innovative range of sources, including
legislation, legal opinions, prosecutions, chronicles and works of
fiction, Dean demonstrates how knowledge of the history of criminal
justice can illuminate our wider understanding of the Middle Ages.
Issues and instruments of criminal justice reflected the structure
and operation of state power; they were an essential element in the
evolution of cities and they provided raw material for fictions.
Furthermore, the study of judicial records provides insight into a
wide range of social situations, from domestic violence to the
oppression of ethnic minorities.
Marriage in the European past was a controlled social institution: parents arranged marriages, the interests of the family were put before those of the individual, and women were expected to be married. This book sets out to explore the consequences of the institution of marriage, especially for women, while also trying to suggest that it had limits. This more critical stance distinguishes this book from the few others available in English on marriage in the late medieval/early modern period, especially as regards Italy.
This volume puts crime and disorder in Renaissance Italy firmly in its political and social context. The contributors include English, Italian, American and Australian scholars. The volume focuses on new material and addresses all stages in the judicial process from the drafting of laws to the rounding up of bandits. The articles range geographically across most of the peninsula. This is the only single-volume treatment available on the subject in English.
Among the many states of late medieval Italy, one stands out for
its unfamiliarity to an English audience and for its neglect in
historical research: that of the Este family, lords (later Dukes)
of the cities of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio in northern Italy. This
book is the first modern attempt to provide a detailed analysis of
the political structure of this state based on archive sources.
Much of the book is concerned with the ways by which the Este used
their vast landed resources in and around Ferrara to build up and
reinforce their personal political authority both within and
outside their dominions. Among the major themes examined are the
continuing presence of political feudalism in the relations between
the Este and their supporters, the place of the court in Ferrarese
noble society, and the violent imposition of Este authority over
the powerful nobles of the Apennine hills.
This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder, and
its cultural presences, across the Italian peninsula between 1350
and 1650. These shape the content in different ways: the faces of
homicide range from the ordinary to the sensational, from the
professional to the accidental, from the domestic to the public;
while the cultural presence of homicide is revealed through new
studies of sculpture, paintings, and popular literature. Dealing
with a range of murders, and informed by the latest criminological
research on homicide, it brings together new research by an
international team of specialists on a broad range of themes:
different kinds of killers (by gender, occupation, and situation);
different kinds of victim (by ethnicity, gender, and status); and
different kinds of evidence (legal, judicial, literary, and
pictorial). It will be an indispensable resource for students of
Renaissance Italy, late medieval/early modern crime and violence,
and homicide studies.
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