The Politics of Exclusion in Early Renaissance Florence

Ricciardelli, Fabrizio

doi:10.1484/m.lmems-eb.5.112213

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“…An array of statutes, civil oaths, bans, and renewals of night curfews delineated acts of violence as deviant behaviours throughout the early modern period. 86 Bologna's criminal bylaws also pronounced a disapproval of a wide range violent behaviours and prescribed harsh sentences, even for instances where no blood was drawn. For homicide, the 1756 bylaws prescribed a capital punishment, and the wounding of another person without any danger to life could result in a sentence to five years' rowing in the papal fleet.…”

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A Game of Norms

Muurling

2023

TSEG

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While the treatment of migrants in the criminal justice system has recently been designated one of the most relevant research directions in the history of crime, scholarship on the period before the nineteenth century and outside of England or Holland remains far and few between. This article offers a first exploration of the role of offenders’ geographical origins in the administration of criminal justice in an early modern Italian city. It scrutinizes patterns of prosecution and sentencing for three distinct types of crime (pauper mobility, theft, and violence) brought before Bologna’s secular criminal court in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. By doing so, it reveals both the variability of repertoires of inclusion and exclusion across the spectrum of criminalized behaviours, and the different stages at which a migrant past could pose a disadvantage in the personalized game with the norms we call early modern criminal justice.

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Section: Violencementioning

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A Game of Norms

Muurling

2023

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“…45 45 ASF, Diplomatico, Archivio Generale, 1291.viii.30. On the Cerchi and Donati feud, see Ricciardelli, Politics of exclusion , pp. 89–99. …”

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Renaissance attachment to things: material culture in last wills and testaments¹

Cohn

2011

The Economic History Review

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Over the past decade ‘material culture’ has become a sub‐discipline of Italian Renaissance studies. This literature, however, has focused on the rich and their objects preserved in museums or reflected in paintings. In addition, the period 1300 to 1600 has been treated without attention to changes in the relationship between people and possessions. The article turns to last wills and testaments, which survive in great numbers and sink deep roots through late medieval and Renaissance cities and their hinterlands. They reveal aspirations and anxieties about things from post‐mortem repairs to farm houses to pillows of monk's wool. These aspirations changed fundamentally after the Black Death. Earlier, during the ‘commercial revolution’, ordinary merchants, artisans, and peasants on their deathbeds practised what the mendicants preached: stripping themselves of their possessions, they converted their estates to coin to be scattered among pious and non‐pious beneficiaries. After the Black Death, testators began to reverse tack, devising ever more complex legal strategies to govern the future flow of their goods. This work of the dead had larger economic consequences. By encouraging the liquidation of estates, the earlier mendicant ideology quickened the velocity of exchange, while the early Renaissance attachment to things did the opposite.

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