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9780801847332

History from Crime : Selections from Quaderni Storici

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801847332

  • ISBN10:

    0801847338

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-05-01
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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"History from Crime" demonstrates how a sophisticated analysis of documents once thought beneath scholarly notice--criminal records--can offer stunning new insights into the past.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Crime of History
Double Death: Resurrection and Baptism in a Seventeenth-Century Ritep. 1
Perpetuas: The Women Who Kept Priests, Siena 1600-1800p. 32
The Old Vinegar Lady, or the Judicial Modernization of the Crime of Witchcraftp. 65
A Secret to Kill the King: Magic and Protection in Piedmont in the Eighteenth Centuryp. 88
The Florentines and Their Public Offices in the Early Fifteenth Century: Competition, Abuses of Power, and Unlawful Actsp. 110
Feuding, Factions, and Parties: The Redefinition of Politics in the Imperial Fiefs of Langhe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuriesp. 135
Counterfeit Coins and Monetary Exchange Structures in the Republic of Genoa during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuriesp. 170
A Dream of Infanticide in Fin de Siecle Viennap. 206
Afterword: Crime and the Writing of Historyp. 226
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