Renaissance of Violence - Homicide in Early Modern Italy

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The tower of justice; 3. Homicide in Bologna, 1600-1700; 4. Gender and homicide in early modern Bologna; 5. The days after no future: post-plague homicides in rural Bologna; 6. It's good to have land: the defense of noble privilege through violence; Conclusion.

About the author

Colin Rose is Assistant Professor of European and Digital History at Brock University, Ontario. He has held fellowships with the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Centre for Criminology and Criminological Studies at the University of Toronto, and the Academy for the Advanced Study of the Renaissance. He is co-editor of Mapping Space, Sense and Movement in Florence: Historical GIS and the Early Modern City (2016) with Nicholas Terpstra, and co-director of the innovative DECIMA web-GIS of Renaissance Florence.

Summary

With evidence from more than 700 homicide trials, Colin Rose demonstrates how and why incidents of violence - in small rural communities, in crowded urban centers and within tightly-knit families - grew so rapidly in North Italy in the seventeenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Rose, Colin (Brock University Rose, Colin (Brock University Ontario) Rose
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108498067
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49806-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, English, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Italy, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social and cultural history, Violence in society, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Violence and abuse in society