Public Justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy. Reggio Emilia in the Visconti Age

Vitiello, Joanna Carraway (2016) Public Justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy. Reggio Emilia in the Visconti Age. Medieval Law and Its Practice, 20 . Brill, Leiden/Boston. ISBN 978-90-04-31135-0

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Abstract

In "Public Justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy: Reggio Emilia in the Visconti Age", Joanna Carraway Vitiello examines the criminal trial at the end of the fourteenth century. Inquisition procedure, in which a powerful judge largely controlled the trial process, was in regular use in the criminal court at Reggio. Yet during the period considered in this study, technical procedural developments combined with the political realities of the town to create a system of justice that prosecuted crime but also encouraged dispute resolution. Following the stages of the process, including investigation, denunciation, the weighing of evidence, and the verdict, this study investigates the court’s complex role as a vehicle for both personal justice and prosecution in the public interest.

Item Type:	Book
Additional Information:	This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0).
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History
Depositing User:	dr Vincenzo De Luise
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2024 18:01
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2024 18:02
URI:	http://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/4990

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