Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials Before the Papal Magistrates - Tapa blanda

Cohen, Elizabeth S.; Cohen, Thomas V.

 
9780802076991: Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials Before the Papal Magistrates
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ISBN 10: 0802076998 ISBN 13: 9780802076991
Editorial: University of Toronto Press, 1993

Sinopsis

The social historian, searching for the basis of a culture, often turns to a study of ordinary people. Perhaps one of the most revealing places to find them is in a court of law. In this presentatoin of nine criminal trials of sixteenth-century Rome (1540-75), where magistrates kept verbatim records, Thomas and Elizabeth Cohen paint a lively portrait of a society, one that is reminiscent of Boccaccio. These stories, however, are true.

Each trial transcript is followed by an essay that interprets the beliefs, codes, everyday speech, and personal transactions of a world that is radically different from our own. The people on trial include assassins, a spell-caster, an exorcist, an adulterous wife, several courtesans, and the peasant cast of a bawdy, sacrilegious play. Out of their often pognant troubles, and their machinations, comes a vivid revelation of not only the tumultuous street life of Rome but also rituals of honour, the power and weakness of women, and the realities of social and economic hierarchies.

Like cinema-verite, Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome gives us an intimate glimpse of a people and their world.

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Acerca de los autores

Elizabeth S. Cohen teaches in the Department of History and in the Division of Humanties, York University.

Thomas V. Cohen is Associate Professor in the Department of History and in the Division of Humanities, York University.

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'Highly recommended for anyone interested in the Renaissance.'

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Editorial
University of Toronto Press
Año de publicación
1993
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0802076998
ISBN 13 
9780802076991
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
308
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