The medieval crime model and its modernization.
Interpretive and methodological limits
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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.cemyr.2019.27.01Keywords:
criminality, violence, homicide, Middle Ages, evolution of criminalityAbstract
The present paper is divided into three sections. The first one deals with that model of medieval criminality in which research has focused on violent conduct and on the crime of homicide as a main issue. The second section accounts for the modernization process of medieval criminality. According to it, a multisecular decline in blood crimes rates would be started in the late Middle Ages. The third and final section offers some reflections on the interpretative and methodological boundaries of this medieval criminality model focused on violence and its subsequent evolution.
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