Abstract: The features of delinquence in 18th century Lombardy is reconstructed across the executed persons' Registers as regards the crimes punished by death. Not only the crimes that happened often as "robberies and homicides" but also those that happened more rarely parade in succession, in a detailed description that lays an often violent society bare, not very sensitive to the ferocity of the repressive apparatus of ancien régime still in forceKeywords: criminal justice, crimes, death penalty, 18th centura, LombardyPublished in RUP: 10.07.2015; Views: 2706; Downloads: 11 Link to full text
Abstract: The paper aims to reconstruct the peculiar "political perception" of deviance expressed by the inquisitors of the Kingdom of Sicily in relation to the atrocious crimes committed by barons and attributed to the "family" of the sacred court, and the alternation of the legislation of Phillip II concerning judicial matters in the hands of the privileged court of inquisitionKeywords: inquisition, Sicily, Philip II, baronage, atrocious crimesPublished in RUP: 10.07.2015; Views: 1860; Downloads: 12 Link to full text
