Getting out of jail
Suicide, escape and release in late medieval and Renaissance Bologna
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4845825 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Dean (0000-0003-4207-6700, University of Roehampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 249 |
| Pages | 449-464 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2281.12190 |
| OpenAlex | W2621497591 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
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 it is argued that the investigative phase of criminal justice, involving torture, increasingly generated suicides and prison escapes
Archaeology · Art history · Credibility · Criminal justice · Criminology · Dead body · Historiography · Homicide · Human rights · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Prison · Sociology · Suicide prevention · The Renaissance · Torture · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Medicine
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |