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Title History from crime / edited by Edward Muir and Guido Ruggiero ; translated by Corrada Biazzo Curry, Margaret A. Gallucci, and Mary M. Gallucci
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1994]
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
©1994
©1994

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Description xviii, 236 pages ; 23 cm
Series Selections from Quaderni storici
Selections from Quaderni storici.
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
Europe
Notes Translated from Italian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Translated from the Italian
Subject Crime -- Europe -- History.
Criminal records -- Europe -- History.
History -- Methodology.
SUBJECT Europe -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103394
Author Muir, Edward, 1946- editor
Ruggiero, Guido, 1944- editor
LC no. 93032009
ISBN 080184732X (acidfree paper)
0801847338 (paperback: acidfree paper)