Village justice : community, family, and popular culture in early modern Italy / Tommaso Astarita.
Village justice : community, family, and popular culture in early modern Italy / Tommaso Astarita.
Village justice : community, family, and popular culture in early modern Italy / Tommaso Astarita.
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Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N306.094573/1
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English
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xxiv, 305 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Contents
Prologue: The Story -- 1. The Village of Pentidattilo, Its Lords, and the State -- 2. Jurisprudence and Local Judicial Practice -- 3. Economic Structures and Social Hierarchies -- 4. Family, Household, and Community -- 5. Justice, Sexuality, and Women -- 6. Religion, the Church, and Popular Morality...
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Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
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Maryland
Date Published
1999.
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"Pentidattilo, in the Kingdom of Naples, 1710. A peasant woman, Domenica Orlando, is brought to trial for the murder by poison of her husband. Tried with her are Anna de Amico, a neighbor who provided the poison, and Pietro Crea, Domenica's alleged lover. During the trial, it is revealed that over the years Anna had helped Domenica and other villag...
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Village justice : community, family, and popular culture in early modern Italy / Tommaso Astarita.
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The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 117th ser., no. 3.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-295) and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N306.094573/1
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74VvgKjdkBpZ
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0801861381 (alk. paper)
9780801861383 (alk. paper)
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306.094573
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991012233289702626
