Joanna Carraway Vitiello, Public justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy: Reggio Emilia in the Visconti Age

This book is an important contribution to the history of medieval justice in Italy, centered on an interesting case-study: the city and the territories (contado) of Reggio Emilia in the Visconti Age. The work measures up to the best historiography on Italian medieval cities, both on the Anglo-American (for example, Blanshei, Dean, Stern) and the Italian side (Vallerani, Zorzi, Sbriccoli). The book is set in Reggio Emilia, in the second half of the fourteenth century, after the plague of 1348....