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Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609 - Softcover

Brackett, John K.

 
9780521522489: Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609
Softcover
ISBN 10: 052152248X ISBN 13: 9780521522489
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

A study of Florentine criminal justice under the reign of the first three Medici grand dukes.

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Review

"This is an important book on a neglected topic and period of Florentine history. It adds texture to the increasingly lively debate about the origins of the modern state, and it further qualifies the received wisdom that Medicean Tuscany was 'absolute.'" Carol Bresnahan Menning, Sixteenth Century Journal

"[Brackett's] conclusions are persuasive and his presentation of the Otto sober and judicious." Times Literary Supplement

Book Description

This is a study of Florentine criminal justice under the first three Medici grand dukes. It is important for the amount of detail it offers for such an early period, and it helps to vitiate the usefulness of the term 'absolutist', which conveys a misleading picture of the early modern state.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
052152248X
ISBN 13 
9780521522489
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
176