• DOI:10.1017/9781108627948
Corpus ID: 211655129

A Renaissance of Violence: Homicide in Early Modern Italy

@inproceedings{Rose2019ARO,
  title={A Renaissance of Violence: Homicide in Early Modern Italy},
  author={Colin S. Rose},
  year={2019}
}

• Colin S. Rose
• Published 2019
• History

Based on a close examination of more than 700 homicide trials, A Renaissance of Violence exposes the deep social instability at the core of the early modern states of North Italy. Following a series of crises in the early seventeenth century, interpersonal violence in the region grew to frightening levels, despite the efforts of courts and governments to reduce social conflict. In this detailed study of violence in early modern Europe, Colin Rose shows how major crises, such as the plague of… Expand

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