Confession and criminal justice in late medieval Italy : Siena, 1260-1330 / Lidia Luisa Zanetti Domingues.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zanetti Domingues, Lidia Luisa, 1990- author.

Series:

Oxford historical monographs.

Oxford historical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal justice, Administration of--Italy--Siena--History--To 1500.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Crime--Italy--Siena--History--To 1500.

Crime.

Confession--History--To 1500.

Confession.

Siena (Italy)--History--Rule of the Nine, 1287-1355.

Siena (Italy).

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover

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

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

Note on Dates and Translations

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Why do we React to Violence the Way we do?

2. Lessons on Violent Crime from Medieval Studies

3. Siena, 1260-1330: An Outline of its Political, Social, and Religious Context

4. Sources and Themes

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

1. A Penitential Conception of Criminal Justice

2. What is a Model, or a Discourse, of Criminal Justice?

3. Similarities and Differences Between Models

4. Individuals and Community: Shame, Guilt, and 'Shame-Guilt'

5. Who were the Bearers of these Different Models in Late Medieval Siena?

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

1. The History of Emotions, Virtues, and Vices

2. 'Good' and 'Bad' Emotions in Thirteenth-Century Religious Thought

3. The Penitential Model of Civic Virtues: Humility, Patience, Mercy

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

1. Humility and Emotional Control

2. Patience and Humility versus Anger and Pride

3. Mercy as a 'Script' for Dispute Settlement

4. The Strategic Role of Virtues

5. To what Extent was this Model Influential on the Laity?

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

1. Theological Theories of Redemption and Atonement and Reforms of Criminal Justice

2. The Nature of Divine Justice in Sienese Sermons

3. The Dangers of Judging: Aims and Problems of Human Justice in Sienese Sermons

5: Communal Legislation and the Pursuit of Divine Justice

1. The System of Criminal Justice in Siena and its Functions

2. Was Vendetta Legal in Medieval Siena?.

3. 'Vengeance is mine': Righteous Indignation and Retribution in the Sienese Legislation

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

1. Sienese Sources in the Context of Italian Communal Justice

2. The 'Politics of Forgiveness' in Siena: The Ritual of the Oblatio

3. Deviance Disavowal Strategies in Sienese Petitions for Amnesties

4. Siena, Italy, Western Europe: Modelling Problems

Conclusion

Bibliography

1. Unprinted primary sources

2. Printed primary sources

3. Secondary sources

4. Unpublished theses

5. Websites

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-265933-2

0-19-193722-3

0-19-265932-4

OCLC:

1263870776