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Words and deeds in Renaissance Rome : trials before the papal magistrates / Thomas V. Cohen and Elizabeth S. Cohen.
LIBRA KJA2700 .C64 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Thomas V. (Thomas Vance), 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trials--Rome.
- Trials.
- Justice, Administration of (Roman law).
- Rome (Italy)--History--1420-1798.
- Rome (Italy).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 308 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1993.
- Summary:
- The social historian, searching for the basis of a culture, often turns to a study of ordinary people. Perhaps one of the most revealing places to find them is in a court of law. In this presentation of nine criminal trials of sixteenth-century Rome (1540-75), where magistrates kept verbatim records, Thomas and Elizabeth Cohen paint a lively portrait of a society, one that is reminiscent of Boccaccio. These stories, however are true.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 080202825X
- 0802076998
- OCLC:
- 28018692
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