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The criminal law system of medieval and Renaissance Florence.
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ISBN: 0801846722 Year: 1994 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins university press

Crime, society and the law in Renaissance Italy
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ISBN: 0521411025 0511523416 0511879601 9780521411028 9780511523410 Year: 1994 Publisher: Boston: Cambridge university press,

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Drawing on a wide body of internationally-renowned scholars, including a core of Italians, this volume focuses on new material and puts crime and disorder in Renaissance Italy firmly in its political and social context. All stages of the judicial process are addressed, from the drafting of new laws to the rounding-up of bandits. Attention is paid both to common crime and to more historically specific crimes, such as sumptuary laws. Attempts to prevent or suppress disorder in private and public life are analysed, and many different types of crime, from the sexual to the political and from the verbal to the physical, are considered. In sum the volume aims to demonstrate the fundamental importance of crime and disorder for the study of the Italian Renaissance. It is the only single-volume treatment available of the subject in English. Other books have studied crime in a single city, or single types of crime, but few have presented a cross-section of articles which deploy diverse methodological approaches in material from many parts of the peninsula.

Criminal justice and crime in late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609
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ISBN: 0521404053 052152248X 0511528817 Year: 1992 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This book examines in detail the Florentine system of criminal justice under the reign of the first three Medici grand dukes, from 1537 to 1609. The author discusses the structure and functions of the court, the operation of the two city prisons, and the definition and treatment of the major categories of crime. His main purpose is to shed light on the character of the Medicean state by examining the effectiveness of its main instrument of social control. The study is important for the amount of detail that it offers for such an early period, and it helps to vitiate the usefulness of the term 'absolutist,' which conveys a misleading picture of the early modern state.

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