Rural People and Public Justice in Fourteenth-Century Tuscany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10426174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Figliulo-Rosswurm (0000-0002-2847-3649, University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 417-456 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/rqx.2019.1 |
| OpenAlex | W3015145426 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 43 |
Accounts of public justice in the Italian communes emphasize mediation of urban conflicts, overlooking interactions between rural communities and civic tribunals. Foregrounding the countryside reveals how nonelites responded to public courts and procedures such as anonymous denunciation and ex officio inquisition. This article argues that a Florentine court's outcomes resulted from the intersection of institutional structures, local power relations, and rural inhabitants’ in-court behavior. It uses procedural records in conjunction with notarial cartularies and public documentation to explicate the local dynamics shaping testimony. Claiming ignorance was rural peoples’ tactical response to elite malefactors' enmeshment with the commune as rural proxies
Economic Justice · Elite · Foregrounding · Mediation · Political science · Power (physics · Rural area · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Medieval and Early Modern Justice · Public Administration
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