A Renaissance of Violence: Homicide in Early Modern Italy

This in-depth analysis of homicide patterns in seventeenth-century Italy explores the social contexts behind a sharp rise in interpersonal violence.

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Main Author: Rose, Colin (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2019
In:Year: 2019
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Summary:This in-depth analysis of homicide patterns in seventeenth-century Italy explores the social contexts behind a sharp rise in interpersonal violence.
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- The Scene of the Crime: Seventeenth-Century Bologna -- Interpreting Early Modern Violence -- Ritual and Performance -- The Civilizing Process -- Social Strategists -- Cultures of Violence and Peacemaking -- Men, Women and Children -- Defining and Prosecuting Homicide -- The Shape of Homicide in Early Modern Bologna -- 2 The Tower of Justice -- Introduction -- Procedure -- The Public Trust: Reforming the Torrone -- State Homicide: Executions, 1600-1700 -- Conclusion -- 3 Homicide in Bologna, 1600-1700 -- Introduction -- Characteristics of Homicide in 1600 -- 1610 and 1620: A Peaceful City, a Blood-Soaked Plain -- General Characteristics of Homicide in 1632 -- Homicides in 1640, 1652 and 1660: Civil War Brewing -- 1670, 1680 and 1690: A Sharp Decline -- 1700: At Century's End -- A Century Retrospective: The Parabola of Violence -- 4 Gender and Homicide in Early Modern Bologna -- Introduction -- Gender, Honour and Violence -- Homicides of Women -- Homicides by Women -- Infanticide -- Conclusion -- 5 The Days after No Future: Post-Plague Homicides in Rural Bologna -- Introduction -- The World Turned Upside-Down: Bernardino Spada's Failed Efforts to Combat the Plague, and the Expansion of the Torrone's Authority -- Post-plague Homicides in the Bolognese contado: Poverty, Disillusion and Revenge -- Conclusion -- 6 It's Good to Have Land: The Defence of Noble Privilege through Violence -- Introduction: The Death of a Judge -- Nobility, Redefined: Torrone Legislation on Factionalism and Weapons -- Urban Homicides in the Wake of the Plague: The Nobility React -- Elite Feuding and Common Struggles: Case Studies from the War -- Assassination in Castel Bolognese.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (262 pages)
ISBN:9781108572897