Confession and Criminal Justice in Late Medieval Italy - Siena, 1260-1330

This monograph provides an in-depth comparison of lay and religious sources produced in Siena (1260-1330) on criminal justice, conflict, and violence.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Competing Models for Approaching Violence and Conflict and their Points of Contact


• 2: Emotions, Virtues and Vices in the Sienese Reflection on Violence and its Remedies


• 3: Models of Emotionality in Action in Religious and Lay Sources on Criminal Justice


• 4: Defining the Complex Relationship between Mercy, Justice and Revenge


• 5: Communal Legislation and the Pursuit of Divine Justice


• 6: The Development of Criminal Justice in Siena and the Influence of Religious Ideas


• Conclusion

About the author

Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues holds a BA in History from the University of Milan, and a Masters' degree and DPhil in History from the University of Oxford. She is currently Past and Present Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. Her main research interest is the interaction between spirituality and penology in late medieval Italy. She has published articles on communal criminal justice and Oriental Christian communities in Italy. She has been a visiting
fellow at the Université du Québec à Montréal and at the Istituto Sangalli per la Storia e le Scienze Religiose.

Summary

This monograph provides an in-depth comparison of lay and religious sources produced in Siena (1260-1330) on criminal justice, conflict, and violence.

Additional text

Zanetti Domingues has created a study that provides new insight into medieval Siena and is accessible to both scholars and advanced undergraduates.

Product details

• Authors: Zanetti Domingues, Lidia Luisa Zanetti Domingues
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2021
• EAN: 9780192844866
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284486-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Siena, European History, LAW / Criminal Law / General, Italy, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Legal History, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Early 14th century c 1300 to c 1350, Later 13th century c 1250 to c 1299