1st Edition
Disputes and Settlements in the Mediterranean Peace-Making in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Contexts, 16th–19th Centuries
List of Contributors
Religion, Justice, and Peace-making in the Mediterranean Space: an Introduction
Paolo Broggio
1. Crimes against God vs. crimes against man: the place for conciliation in the perspective of Islamic criminal law
Deborah Scolart
2. Giuliano del Bello, Victims of a Vendetta in Koper/Capodistria (Istria) in 1541 and 1686: Two Cases of Violence and Reconciliation
Darko Darovec
3. Managing conflicts, preserving boundaries. Arbitration courts in the Roman ghetto (16th to 19th century)
Serena Di Nepi
4. With God on our side: the impossible peace and the judgment of God
Guido Dall’Olio
5. Bandits and spouses. A case of jurisdictional conflict over marriage in the Papal States (late 17th century)
Fernanda Alfieri
6. Jewish Law under Christian Sovereignty: Legal Pluralism and Governance in Early Modern Italy
Guido Bartolucci
7. Courts in the capital as mediators of marital conflicts in the periphery. Elena Cumano vs. Giovanni Battista Facen between secular and ecclesiastical courts (Feltre-Venice, 1588)
Eddy Benato
8. Self, Civil Society and the Pacification of Manners in Seventeenth-Century France
Stuart Carroll
9. Minority Agency in a Time of Crisis: Bosnian Franciscans and Challenges of Communal Violence, Justice, and Reconciliation in the 18th Century Ottoman Bosnia
Vjeran Kursar
10. Ethnography, Political Propaganda, and Cultural Mediation in Michel Febvre’s Teatro della Turchia
Federico Stella
11. The peacemaking and peacekeeping practices and rituals of the Early Modern Age Montenegrin and North-Albanian Clans
Angelika Ergaver
Index
Biography
Paolo Broggio is Professor of Early Modern History at Roma Tre University. He received his Ph.D. in History and Civilization from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. His research and publications focus on the history of Roman Catholic missions in comparative perspective; the political dimensions of intra-Catholic theological controversies; the social and political history of theological teaching; and, more recently, the interrelations between violence, criminal justice, and peacemaking in early modern Italy.
