TY - BOOK ID - 104633324 TI - Public Justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy : Reggio Emilia in the Visconti Age PY - 2016 SN - 9789004311350 9789004307452 9004311351 9004307451 PB - Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Criminal procedure KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Administration of criminal justice KW - Justice, Administration of KW - Crime KW - Criminal law KW - Criminals KW - Courts KW - Procedure (Law) KW - Public law KW - Appellate procedure KW - Criminal courts KW - Trial practice KW - History. KW - Law and legislation KW - Pleading and practice KW - History KW - Bologna KW - Comune KW - Defendant KW - Guillaume Durand KW - Inquisition KW - Milan KW - Podestà KW - Reggio Emilia KW - Torture KW - Visconti of Milan UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:104633324 AB - In Public Justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy: Reggio Emilia in the Visconti Age , Joanna Carraway Vitiello examines the criminal trial at the end of the fourteenth century. Inquisition procedure, in which a powerful judge largely controlled the trial process, was in regular use in the criminal court at Reggio. Yet during the period considered in this study, technical procedural developments combined with the political realities of the town to create a system of justice that prosecuted crime but also encouraged dispute resolution. Following the stages of the process, including investigation, denunciation, the weighing of evidence, and the verdict, this study investigates the court’s complex role as a vehicle for both personal justice and prosecution in the public interest. ER -