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Author Kumhera, Glenn

Title The Benefits of Peace
Published Boston : BRILL, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages)
Series The Medieval Mediterranean Ser
Medieval Mediterranean Ser
Contents Intro -- The Benefits of Peace: Private Peacemaking in Late Medieval Italy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Usage -- Introduction -- 1 Peace and Concord -- The Meanings of Peace -- The Attraction of Peace: Features of the Instrumentum Pacis -- Finding Conflict in a Peace -- The Importance of Peace: Statutory Penalties for Peace-Breaking -- 2 Peacemaking in the Criminal Courts -- Jurists and Statutes on Peacemaking and Procedure -- A Case Study: Peacemaking and Denunciations in the Sienese Contado -- Peacemaking in Inquests Launched by Fama -- The Use of Peace in Courts into the Quattrocento -- 3 Peacemaking and the Criminal Ban -- Peacemaking's Role in Rebannimentum -- Rebannimentum Petitions and Amnesties -- Peace and Prison Release -- 4 Placing the Public in Private Peacemaking -- Between Public and Private Peacemaking -- The Scene of Peace -- Procurators and Peacemaking -- Peacemaking through Friends -- Arbitration and Peacemaking -- 5 Ecclesiastical Involvement in Peacemaking -- Preaching Peace and Popular Peace Movements -- Chief Ecclesiastics and Institutions in Peacemaking -- Priests, Rectors, and Monks in Everyday Peacemaking -- 6 Performing Peace in Medieval Rome -- 7 Women and Minors in Peacemaking -- Marriage as an Element of Peacemaking -- Women in Peacemaking -- Minors and Peacemaking -- 8 Assessing Peacemaking -- The Motives for Peace -- The Effectiveness of Peacemaking -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Map -- Appendix B: Tables -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects
Notes Print version record
Subject Criminal justice, Administration of.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004341111
9004341110