Habitual Offenders - 9780226335339

Description: Habitual OffendersAuthor(s): Craig A. Monson Format: Hardback Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 9780226335339, 978-0226335339 Synopsis In April 1644, two nuns fled Bologna's convent for reformed prostitutes. A perfunctory archiepiscopal investigation went nowhere, and the nuns were quickly forgotten. By June of the next year, however, an overwhelming stench drew a woman to the wine cellar of her Bolognese townhouse, reopened after a two-year absence-where to her horror she discovered the eerily intact, garroted corpses of the two missing women. Drawing on over four thousand pages of primary sources, the intrepid Craig A. Monson reconstructs this fascinating history of crime and punishment in seventeenth-century Italy. Along the way, he explores Italy's back streets and back stairs, giving us access to voices we rarely encounter in conventional histories: prostitutes and maidservants, mercenaries and bandits, along with other "dubious" figures negotiating the boundaries of polite society. Painstakingly researched and breathlessly told, Habitual Offenders will delight historians and true-crime fans alike.

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Book Title: Habitual Offenders

Number of Pages: 344 Pages

Publication Name: Habitual Offenders: a True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Language: English

Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press

Item Height: 237 mm

Subject: History, Criminology

Publication Year: 2016

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 614 g

Author: Craig A. Monson

Item Width: 161 mm

Format: Hardcover