Description |
xviii, 236 pages ; 23 cm |
Series |
Selections from Quaderni storici |
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Selections from Quaderni storici.
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Contents |
Introduction: The Crime of History -- 1. Double Death: Resurrection and Baptism in a Seventeenth-Century Rite -- 2. Perpetuas: The Women Who Kept Priests, Siena 1600-1800 -- 3. The Old Vinegar Lady, or the Judicial Modernization of the Crime of Witchcraft -- 4. A Secret to Kill the King: Magic and Protection in Piedmont in the Eighteenth Century -- 5. The Florentines and Their Public Offices in the Early Fifteenth Century: Competition, Abuses of Power, and Unlawful Acts -- 6. Feuding, Factions, and Parties: The Redefinition of Politics in the Imperial Fiefs of Langhe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 7. Counterfeit Coins and Monetary Exchange Structures in the Republic of Genoa during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 8. A Dream of Infanticide in Fin de Siecle Vienna -- Afterword: Crime and the Writing of History |
Analysis |
Crimes History |
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Europe |
Notes |
Translated from Italian |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Translated from the Italian |
Subject |
Crime -- Europe -- History.
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Criminal records -- Europe -- History.
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History -- Methodology.
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SUBJECT |
Europe -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103394
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Author |
Muir, Edward, 1946- editor
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Ruggiero, Guido, 1944- editor
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LC no. |
93032009 |
ISBN |
080184732X (acidfree paper) |
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0801847338 (paperback: acidfree paper) |
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