T Dean

Biographic Data

ID20553
NAMET Dean
GIVEN NAMEST
FAMILY NAMEDean
SIGNATUREDEAN T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Roehampton
ORCID0000-0003-4207-6700
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS53
TOTAL CITATIONS22
AUTHOR COUNT53
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Furti e insulti

    T DeanARTICLESpeculum2026

  • Memnon in the Middle Ages

    Open AccessT DeanARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2024

    Memnon, the mythic king of Ethiopia killed by Achilles during the Trojan War, had a double or fused identity in classical antiquity: both Asian and African for Greek and Roman writers because of his parentage and because of the geographical indeterminacy of ‘Aithiopia’ and of ‘India’, but definitely black-skinned for Roman writers. How was this figure received in medieval texts and images? This paper tracks Memnon through three textual genres fro…

  • Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe

    Open AccessT DeanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2024

    Journal Article Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe: A Thousand-Year History, by Jonathan R. Lyon Get access Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe: A Thousand-Year History, by Jonathan R. Lyon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023; pp. xiii + 417. £29.99). Trevor Dean Trevor Dean University of Roehampton, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4207-6700 Search for other works by this author…

  • Poison

    Open AccessT DeanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2024

  • Edda Frankot, Banishment in the Late Medieval Eastern Netherlands

    Open AccessT DeanARTICLEBMGN - Low Countries Historical…2023

  • Bigamists” in Bologna, 1350–1500

    Open AccessT DeanARTICLEJournal of Family History2023

    Bigamy trials in medieval secular courts were rare and rarely documented. Where they do survive, they raise interesting questions about the relation between penal law and social practice, about knowledge of church laws on the legitimate forms and processes of marriage, and about gendered aspects of how this crime was perceived, prosecuted and punished. The incomparable riches of the criminal court in Bologna supply a set of nearly thirty cases in…

  • A Renaissance of Violence

    T DeanARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2023

  • Marked Men

    Open AccessT Dean, Patricia SkinnerARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2022

    This article presents and analyses an exceptional and unused source: lists of the patrolmen and court-servants of the judges of fifteenth-century Perugia. These lists are exceptional because of the wealth of detail they provide on the provenance and physical description of these men, personal information that was written down as a sort of identity record. We describe and explain the nature of the source and use the data for multi-faceted explorat…

  • Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy, by Katherine Ludwig Jansen

    Open AccessT DeanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2019

    The pacification of disputes has been a strongly developing theme in Italian social and legal history since the 1990s, and numerous focused studies have been made of single cities and regions, for example, by Massimo Vallerani on Perugia (1999), Mario Sensi on central Italy (2000), Shona Kelly Wray and myself on Bologna (respectively 2009, 2002), Emanuela Porta Casucci on Florence (2009) and Glenn Kumhera on Siena (2011). Katherine Jansen herself…

  • Police forces in late medieval Italy

    T DeanARTICLESocial History2019Cited by: 1References: 4

    Police forces (birri) in Italian cities in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were composed of outsiders, non-natives, employed on short-term contracts, usually of six months’ duration. There was therefore a huge circulating pool of these patrolmen, sergeants and constables, moving from city to city. These groups have been little studied, and are often assumed to be vile, odious and little better than criminals. This article draws on survivin…

  • Notices of Periodicals and Occasional Publications mainly from 2017

    Open AccessR Allen, Judith Barrow et al.ARTICLEThe English Historical Review2018

    in response and riposte to Constantine's reshaped Christianity.Journal of Ecclesiastical History, lxviii The origins of the Vandals' reputation as persecutors of Catholicism in North Africa and Spain in the fifth century is convincingly reassessed by E. Fournier.Their conquest of Africa was initially understood as normal warfare, without religious motivation.Tentative suggestions by Augustine which provided a way to interpret the devastation in t…

  • Sodomy in Renaissance Bologna

    Open AccessT DeanARTICLERenaissance Studies2017

    Sodomy has been well studied in Renaissance Florence and Venice. This article for the first time examines this sexual crime in another major Italian city, home of an important university, seat of papal government, and venue of an emergent lordship of the Bentivoglio family. The article starts with a full discussion of the thirty‐nine trials in the Bolognese criminal court across the period 1350–1499, focusing on the evolution of the penalized beh…

  • Getting out of jail

    Open AccessT DeanARTICLEHistorical Research2017

    This article discusses and contextualizes a unique document: the record of an investigation into a death, apparently by suicide, in the communal prison in Bologna in 1473, with an accompanying drawing of the dead body. The credibility of this death as suicide is questioned and discussed as a possible concealed homicide. It is then further contextualized in relation to the recent, revisionist historiography of conditions in medieval prisons, and i…

  • Plague and crime

    T DeanARTICLEContinuity and Change2015Cited by: 1

    The historiography of epidemics and crime suggests that we might find effects of plague on criminal behaviour in the years of the Black Death and its aftermath, yet this question has not been systematically investigated by late medieval historians. For the first time, a continuous series of trial records covering the 1340s – for the city of Bologna – is here analysed, and the issue of a ‘breakdown in law and order’ is addressed. The particular pa…

  • The Italian City Republics

    Daniel Waley, Daniel Philip Waley et al.BOOKItalian City Republics2013

    Daniel Waley and Trevor Dean illustrate how, from the eleventh century onwards, many dozens of Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual ‘tyrants’ took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of a precocious, and very well-documented, experiment in republican self-government. Focusing on the typical medium-sized towns rath…

  • Natural encounters

    T DeanARTICLEEuropean Review of History Revue…2011Cited by: 2References: 7

    This paper examines a key issue in the history of the climate in the pre-instrumental period, that is, how to use narrative sources which make frequent references to weather events, but which need contextualised interpretation. The paper follows an argument that climatological techniques for deriving temperature indices from chronicles, though they have become increasingly elaborate and refined, nevertheless leave out much that is of interest to …

  • City and cosmos

    Open AccessT DeanARTICLEThe Economic History Review2011

  • How Historians Begin

    Open AccessT DeanARTICLEHistory2010

    Why is the problem of beginning – much discussed in literary scholarship – not dealt with in similar depth by historians? This article attempts an answer to this question, and does so in three ways. First, it examines literary scholarship on textual openings, showing the various ways in which the beginning is given significance. Then, it examines and challenges the common presentation of historical discourse as distinct from fiction. Finally, it …

  • Theft and Gender in Late Medieval Bologna

    Open AccessT DeanARTICLEGender & History2008Cited by: 3

    This article aims to challenge the prevalent presentation and analysis of gender in studies of theft in the Middle Ages. Female thieving is usually differentiated from men's – by motivation and mode, by venue and value – and these differences are related either to women's physical inferiority or to their nurturing roles (thieving to support the domestic economy) or to inequalities of access to such elements as weapons (for robbery) or tools (for …

  • Fornicating with nuns in fifteenth-century Bologna

    T DeanARTICLEJournal of Medieval History2008Cited by: 2

    The article opens with the prosecution in 1432 of a spicer for abducting a nun. This is first of all presented as the story of a trial: the formation of the indictment, the defence tactics, the deposition of witnesses, and only then are the experience of the nun, and the gender relations in the event, examined. This leads to numerous contexts: legal (the development of the law on sexual relations with professed nuns); judicial (similar cases in l…

  • Firenze e le sue campagne nel Trecento

    T DeanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2007

    Journal Article Firenze e le sue campagne nel Trecento: mercanti, produzione, traffici Get access Firenze e le sue campagne nel Trecento: mercanti, produzione, traffici. By Charles Marie De La Roncière (Florence: Olschki, 2005; pp. xvi + 440. Eur 45). Trevor Dean Trevor Dean Roehampton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXII, Issue 496, April 2007, Pages 467–4…

  • La giustizia pubblica medievale

    T DeanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2007

    It is a common feature of much contemporary historiography to deconstruct standard depictions of historical phenomena in order to present them as constructions, not givens. This restores agency to the historical actors, while also complicating the story. Vallerani's approach to the history of Italian justice in the thirteenth century is just such a contribution. In this volume he gathers six of his essays on this theme, four of them already publi…

  • The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth‐century Italy by Anthony F. D’Elia and Husbands, Wives and Concubines

    Open AccessT DeanARTICLERenaissance Studies2006

  • Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1300-1550

    T DeanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006

    Writing a history of Renaissance Italy is a difficult task. Writing one for a series called the Short Oxford History of Italy—which aims to provide accounts of how ‘each period of Italy's history is currently being redefined’ and ‘rewritten’—compounds the difficulty. To the problem of conjuring complexity into brevity are joined the hazards of sequencing and readership. Is the volume well co-ordinated with preceding and following volumes in the s…

  • Domestic violence in late‐medieval Bologna

    Open AccessT DeanARTICLERenaissance Studies2004