{"product_id":"words-and-deeds-in-renaissance-rome-1","title":"Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe social historian, searching for the basis of a culture, often turns to a study of ordinary people. Perhaps one of the most revealing places to find them is in a court of law. In this presentatoin of nine criminal trials of sixteenth-century Rome (1540-75), where magistrates kept verbatim records, Thomas and Elizabeth Cohen paint a lively portrait of a society, one that is reminiscent of Boccaccio. These stories, however, are true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach trial transcript is followed by an essay that interprets the beliefs, codes, everyday speech, and personal transactions of a world that is radically different from our own. The people on trial include assassins, a spell-caster, an exorcist, an adulterous wife, several courtesans, and the peasant cast of a bawdy, sacrilegious play. Out of their often pognant troubles, and their machinations, comes a vivid revelation of not only the tumultuous street life of Rome but also rituals of honour, the power and weakness of women, and the realities of social and economic hierarchies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike cinema-verite, \u003ci\u003eWords and Deeds in Renaissance Rome\u003c\/i\u003e gives us an intimate glimpse of a people and their world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Elizabeth S. Cohen and Thomas V. Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53617688871292,"sku":"9781442683624","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442683624.jpg?v=1731031061","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/words-and-deeds-in-renaissance-rome-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}