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Civil Blood : Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Madden, Amanda G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italy--Politics and government--16th century.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (372 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Civil Blood is a microhistory of the practice of vendetta among the civic elite in sixteenth-century Modena, Italy, and illustrates the complex and integral role that vendetta violence played in civic life and state formation on the winding path to state centralization in early modern Italy."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Vendetta and governance
- Vendetta and the civic elites
- Vendetta and civic reform
- Vendetta and the law
- Vendetta and the nuns
- Vendetta and property
- Vendetta and peace.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5017-8192-8
- 9781501781919
- OCLC:
- 1515075038
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