Violence and Justice in Bologna

1250–1700

Nonfiction, History, Italy, Medieval
Cover of the book Violence and Justice in Bologna by Sarah Rubin Blanshei, Margaux Buyck, Christopher Carlsmith, Sara Cucini, Trevor Dean, Carol Lansing, Gregory Roberts, Colin S. Rose, Massimo Vallerani, Melissa Vise, Lexington Books
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Author: Sarah Rubin Blanshei, Margaux Buyck, Christopher Carlsmith, Sara Cucini, Trevor Dean, Carol Lansing, Gregory Roberts, Colin S. Rose, Massimo Vallerani, Melissa Vise ISBN: 9781498546348
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: April 2, 2018
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Sarah Rubin Blanshei, Margaux Buyck, Christopher Carlsmith, Sara Cucini, Trevor Dean, Carol Lansing, Gregory Roberts, Colin S. Rose, Massimo Vallerani, Melissa Vise
ISBN: 9781498546348
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: April 2, 2018
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

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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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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