Evidence, Crime, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterran... - 9781032781471

Evidence, Crime, and Forensics in the Early Modern MediterraneanAuthor(s): Lu Ann Homza, Amanda L. Scott\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032781471, 978-1032781471\nSynopsis\nRecent historians have pinpointed the ways in which legal systems in early modern Europe were improvisational, flexible, and contingent rather than immovable, hierarchical, and gendered. Evidence, Crime, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterranean amplifies such findings by looking at law and its consumers in the Mediterranean, broadly imagined, between 1500 and 1750. The volumes essays enhance our awareness of how crimes were defined, evidence was offered, and forensic awareness appeared in secular, inquisitorial, and specially commissioned courts in Spain, Italy, and the Hapsburg Balkans.\n\nThis collection threads an important needle: our authors recognize formal chains of command and legal commonplaces but nonetheless emphasize how s.