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Violence and I talian universities during the R enaissance
Author(s) -
Davies Jonathan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
renaissance studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1477-4658
pISSN - 0269-1213
DOI - 10.1111/rest.12027
Subject(s) - fifteenth , masculinity , the renaissance , period (music) , criminology , italian renaissance , history , economic justice , political science , sociology , gender studies , media studies , social science , law , classics , art , aesthetics , art history
Historians have recently begun to explore premodern academic violence and this study is the first survey of violence at Italian universities between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. It seeks to address a series of questions. How frequent was violence? What forms did it take? What motivated it? What were the responses of the authorities? Examining these issues increases our understanding of masculinity and academic, social, and national identities in this period. It also throws light on the nature of justice in the Italian states.