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- Title
Getting out of jail: suicide, escape and release in late medieval and Renaissance Bologna.
- Authors
Dean, Trevor
- Abstract
This article discusses and contextualizes a unique document: the record of an investigation into a death, apparently by suicide, in the communal prison in Bologna in 1473, with an accompanying drawing of the dead body. The credibility of this death as suicide is questioned and discussed as a possible concealed homicide. It is then further contextualized in relation to the recent, revisionist historiography of conditions in medieval prisons, and it is argued that the investigative phase of criminal justice, involving torture, increasingly generated suicides and prison escapes.
- Subjects
BOLOGNA (Italy); CRIMES against prisoners; PRISON psychology; SUICIDE; CRIMINAL justice system
- Publication
Historical Research, 2017, Vol 90, Issue 249, p449
- ISSN
0950-3471
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-2281.12190