Title Public justice and the criminal trial in late medieval Italy : Reggio Emilia in the Visconti age / by Joanna Carraway Vitiello

Published Leiden : Brill, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series Medieval law and its practice Medieval law and its practice. Contents Power, Jurisdiction, and criminal investigation -- The formation of a criminal inquisition -- Fama, notoriety, and the due process of law -- Proofs, defenses, ad the determination of guilt or innocence -- Resolutions : conviction, absolution, and mitigation Summary This book examines the administration of justice in the small northern Italian town of Reggio Emilia at the end of the fourteenth century. Through an examination of material from the judicial archives from the period 1371-1409, this study investigates the development of public justice, inquisition procedure, and dispute resolution in late medieval Reggio Emilia, also incorporating comparative material, especially archival material from Bologna at the end of the fourteenth century. This study seeks to add to the discussion on dispute resolution and court processes in late medieval Europe, moving the discussion outside the major urban centers of late medieval Italy to the periphery of urban life Analysis History Bologna Comune Defendant Guillaume Durand Inquisition Milan Podestà Reggio Emilia Torture Visconti of Milan Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Criminal procedure -- Italy -- Reggio Emilia -- History Criminal justice, Administration of -- Italy -- Reggio Emilia -- History HISTORY -- General. Criminal justice, Administration of Criminal procedure Italy -- Reggio Emilia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2015045347 ISBN 9789004311350 9004311351

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