The Criminal Law System Of Medieval And Renaissance Florence

Author : Laura Ikins Stern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106010000708

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The Criminal Law System of Medieval and Renaissance Florence by Laura Ikins Stern Pdf

Historians of medieval and Renaissance Italy have long held that the Florentine republic fell victim to rule by oligarchy in the early fifteenth century. Now, in the first complete analysis of the criminal law system of Florence during this crucial period, Laura Ikins Stern argues that the vitality of Florentine legal institutions gives evidence of a centralized state bureaucracy strong enough to thwart the early development of a ruling oligarchy. Exploring the changing roles played by judicial officials as well as the evolution of Florentine government, Stern shows how these developments reflected broad-based change in society at large. From such primary documents as legal statutes and actual trial records, she provides a step-by-step explanation of trial procedure to offer a rare glimpse of inquisition methods in the secular world--from public fame initiation, through the weighing of various levels of proof, to the complex process of sentencing. And sheexplores the links between implementation of inquisition procedure, the development of the territorial state, and the struggle between republican institutions and the emerging oligarchy. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.

Author : Trevor Dean,K. J. P. Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521411028

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Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy by Trevor Dean,K. J. P. Lowe Pdf

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.

Author : John K. Brackett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 052152248X

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Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609 by John K. Brackett Pdf

A study of Florentine criminal justice under the reign of the first three Medici grand dukes.

Author : Joanna Carraway Vitiello
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004311350

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Public Justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy by Joanna Carraway Vitiello Pdf

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.

Author : Laura Ikins Stern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003458341

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The Criminal Law System of Medieval and Renaissance Florence by Laura Ikins Stern Pdf

Author : Scott Nethersole
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300233513

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Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence by Scott Nethersole Pdf

This study is the first to examine the relationship between art and violence in 15th-century Florence, exposing the underbelly of a period more often celebrated for enlightened and progressive ideas. Renaissance Florentines were constantly subjected to the sight of violence, whether in carefully staged rituals of execution or images of the suffering inflicted on Christ. There was nothing new in this culture of pain, unlike the aesthetic of violence that developed towards the end of the 15th century. It emerged in the work of artists such as Piero di Cosimo, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, and the young Michelangelo. Inspired by the art of antiquity, they painted, engraved, and sculpted images of deadly battles, ultimately normalizing representations of brutal violence. Drawing on work in social and literary history, as well as art history, Scott Nethersole sheds light on the relationship between these Renaissance images, violence, and ideas of artistic invention and authorship.

Author : William J. Connell,Giles Constable
Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0772720304

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Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence by William J. Connell,Giles Constable Pdf

In Florence, in the summer of 1501, a man named Antonio Rinaldeschi was arrested and hanged after throwing horse dung at an outdoor painting of the Virgin Mary. His punishment was severe, even for the times, and the crimes with which he was formally charged, gambling, blasphemy and attempted suicide, did not normally warrant the death penalty. Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence unveils a series of newly discovered sources concerning this striking episode. The authors show how the political and religious context of Renaissance Florence resulted both in Rinaldeschi's death sentence and in the creation by the followers of Savonarola of a new religious devotion, in the heart of the city, commemorating the event. -- Amazon.com.

Author : Lawrin Armstrong,Julius Kirshner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442661615

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The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy by Lawrin Armstrong,Julius Kirshner Pdf

The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy features original contributions by international scholars on the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Lauro Martines' Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence, which is recognized as a groundbreaking study challenging traditional approaches to both Florentine and legal history. Essays by leading historians examine the professional, social, and political functions of Italian jurists from the thirteenth to the late fifteenth centuries. The volume also examines the use of emergency powers, the critical role played by jurists in mediating the rule of law, and the adjudication of political crimes. The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy provides both an assessment of Martines' pioneering archival scholarship as well as fresh insights into the interplay of law and politics in late medieval and Renaissance Italy.

Author : Norval Morris,David J. Rothman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195118146

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The Oxford History of the Prison by Norval Morris,David J. Rothman Pdf

Ranging from ancient times to the present, a survey of the evolution of the prison explores its relationship to the history of Western criminal law and offers a look at the social world of prisoners over the centuries.

Author : Katherine Ludwig Jansen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691203249

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Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy by Katherine Ludwig Jansen Pdf

Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy is the first book to examine how civic peacemaking in the age of Dante was forged in the crucible of penitential religious practice. Focusing on Florence in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, an era known for violence and civil discord, Katherine Ludwig Jansen brilliantly illuminates how religious and political leaders used peace agreements for everything from bringing an end to neighborhood quarrels to restoring full citizenship to judicial exiles. She brings to light a treasure trove of unpublished evidence from notarial archives and supports it with sermons, hagiography, political treatises, and chronicle accounts. She paints a vivid picture of life in an Italian commune, a socially and politically unstable world that strove to achieve peace. Jansen also assembles a wealth of visual material from the period, illustrating for the first time how the kiss of peace—a ritual gesture borrowed from the Catholic Mass—was incorporated into the settlement of secular disputes. Breaking new ground in the study of peacemaking in the Middle Ages, Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy adds an entirely new dimension to our understanding of Italian culture in this turbulent age by showing how peace was conceived, memorialized, and occasionally achieved.

Author : Sharon Strocchia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199810956

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Florence: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Sharon Strocchia Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

Author : Sarah R. Blanshei
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004189430

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Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna by Sarah R. Blanshei Pdf

Utilizing a uniquely rich collection of trial records and council meeting minutes from late medieval Bologna, this book offers the first study of summary justice and oligarchy in an Italian commune, demonstrating how new legal institutions arose in response to the increasingly exclusionary policies of the popolo government.

Author : Lawrin David Armstrong,Julius Kirshner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442640757

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The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy by Lawrin David Armstrong,Julius Kirshner Pdf

The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy features original contributions by international scholars on the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Lauro Martines' Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence, which is recognized as a groundbreaking study challenging traditional approaches to both Florentine and legal history. Essays by leading historians examine the professional, social, and political functions of Italian jurists from the thirteenth to the late fifteenth centuries. The volume also examines the use of emergency powers, the critical role played by jurists in mediating the rule of law, and the adjudication of political crimes. The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy provides both an assessment of Martines' pioneering archival scholarship as well as fresh insights into the interplay of law and politics in late medieval and Renaissance Italy.

Author : John H. Langbein
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Criminal procedure
ISBN : 9781584775775

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Prosecuting Crime in the Renaissance by John H. Langbein Pdf

Our present system of criminal prosecution originated in England in the sixteenth century. Langbein traces its development, which was at its most intense during the reign of Queen Mary. He shows how the common law developed a system of official investigation and prosecution that incorporated the medieval institution of the jury trial. He places equal emphasis on the role of the justices of the peace as public prosecutors. The second half of the book compares the English system with those of the Holy Roman Empire (Germany) and France. He concludes by refuting the popular opinion that the English were strongly indebted to continental models. "This is an excellent work of scholarship, exhibiting wide research, erudition and analytical ability." --Joseph H. Smith, Harvard Law Review 88 (1974-1975) 485 JOHN LANGBEIN is Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School. He has held academic positions at Stanford University, Oxford University, the Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte and the Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Strafrecht. Langbein is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of Comparative Law, the International Association of Procedure Law, and other organizations in the fields of legal history and comparative law. Some of his most distinguished publications and articles include History of the Common Law: The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions (2009), Torture and the Law of Proof: Europe and England in the Ancient Regime (1977), and "The Supreme Court Flunks Trusts," Supreme Court Review (1991).

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198700395

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Italy in the Age of the Renaissance by John M. Najemy Pdf

"The twelve essays in this volume present an introduction to Italian Renaissance society, intellectual history, and politics" -- provided by publisher.