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Papal justice : subjects and courts in the Papal State, 1500-1750 / Irene Fosi ; translated by Thomas V. Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fosi, Irene, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Justice, Administration of--Italy--Papal States--History--Modern period, 1500-.
- Justice, Administration of.
- Courts--Italy--Papal States--History--Modern period, 1500-.
- Courts.
- Civil procedure--Italy--Papal States--History--Modern period, 1500-.
- Civil procedure.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This lively overview of the papal justice system reaches a transatlantic readership and makes available the fruit of Fosi's decades-long research in unpublished archives in Rome and the Vatican.
- Contents:
- A complex geography
- Roman tribunals in the early modern period
- The "new" inquisition and the pope's city
- The theater of justice
- Restless nobles
- Collaboration and conflicts : governors, bishops, inquisitors
- Sins and crimes
- Inside the family
- Disciplining the clergy
- Buon governo : between Utopia and reality
- Little fatherlands : local identity and central power
- Rivers of ink : petitions, memorials, letters
- Justice represented, justice recounted.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1906-X
- OCLC:
- 820011255
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