Violence and Civil Disorder in Italian Cities, 1200-1500

8vo, cloth in dust jacket, plastic cover protecting the dust jacket. 353pp. ucla center for medieval anfd renaissance studies contributions V, 5. an excellent copy. I. INTRODUCTION: THE HISTORICAL APPROACH TO VIOLENCELAURO MARTINES, University of California, Los Angeles, page 3 II. VIOLENCE IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES: A BACKGROUNDJ. R. HALE, University College, London, page 19 III. ORDER AND DISORDER IN ROMAGNA, 1450-1500JOHN LARNER, University of Glasgow, page 38 IV. THE ASSASSINATION OF GALEAZZO MARIA SFORZA AND THE REACTION OF ITALIAN DIPLOMACYVINCENT ILARDI, University of Massachusetts, page 72 V. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN FERRARA, 1440-1500WERNER L. GUNDERSHEIMER, University of Pennsylvania, page 104 VI. SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ROOTS OF VIOLENCE IN THE TUSCAN CITIESDAVID HERLIHY, University of Wisconsin, page 129 VII. THE FLORENTINE POPOLO MINUTO AND ITS POLITICAL ROLE, 1340-1450GENE A. BRUCKER, University of California, Berkeley, page 155 VIII. CRIME, PUNISHMENT, AND THE TRECENTO VENETIAN STATESTANLEY CHOJNACKI, Michigan State University, page 184 IX. THE ANATOMY OF REBELLION IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY SIENA: FROM COMMUNE TO SIGNORY?WILLIAM M. BOWSKY, University of California, Davis, page 229 X. CONTEMPORARY VIEWS ON FACTION AND CIVIL STRIFE IN THIRTEENTH- AND FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ITALYJ. K. HYDE, Manchester University, page 273 XI. VIOLENCE, DISORDER, AND ORDER IN THIRTEENTH-CENTURY ROMEROBERT BRENTANO, University of California, Berkeley, page 308 XII. POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURYLAURO MARTINES, page 331