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- Book Title
- Habitual Offenders: A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murdere
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- 9780226335339
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022633533X
ISBN-13
9780226335339
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038264034
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Publication Name
Habitual Offenders : a True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Language
English
Subject
Murder / General, Europe / Italy, Christianity / Catholic, General, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Religion, True Crime, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2015-039579
Reviews
Monson is both a careful historian and a compelling narrator, helping us delve deeply into the daily lives of seventeenth-century Italians from all regions and walks of life. What emerges is a page-turner of a whodunit made especially compelling by Monson's extraordinary and subtle ability to convey the diverse personalities of his many historical subjects and to plunge his reader into the world of early modern Italian culture., The author's meticulous archival documentation, however, reveals the intricate real life of the times, complete with bunglers, semi-innocent victims, common soldiers, shopkeepers, petty nobles, nuns, prostitutes, and priests, as well as members of the high nobility and church officials. . . . The book's content might interest folklorists researching street culture, youth gangs, criminal organizations, fascist or other mushrooming political movements, evangelists, behind-the-scenes power mongers, and military or factional conflict of any kind., Unorthodox but engaging . . . . Habitual Offenders stands as an engaging and promising example of accessible scholarship that combines deep archival work with narrative panache., Craig A. Monson, emeritus professor in music in Arts & Sciences, sifted through more than 4,000 pages of primary texts in order to tell the tale of two nuns who fled Bologna's convent for reformed prostitutes in 1644. A search for the nuns went nowhere until their bodies were found a year later in the wine cellar of a Bolognese townhouse. The scandal touched priests, nobles, cardinals, a king and even the pope., Monson's Habitual Offenders is an enthralling amalgam of sex, violence, and scholarship. At the center of the story are the abduction and murder of two reformed prostitute nuns in Bologna in April of 1644. From this relatively banal event, the ramifications spread ever more widely, involving priests, nobles, cardinals, a king, and finally the pope himself. The most harrowing chapter of the story describes in detail the judicial murder of a prisoner by the illegal use of enhanced interrogation techniques. Plus ça change . . . ., Monson's Habitual Offenders is an enthralling amalgam of sex, violence, and scholarship. At the center of the story are the abduction and murder of two reformed prostitute nuns in Bologna in April of 1644. From this relatively banal event, the ramifications spread ever more widely, involving priests, nobles, cardinals, a king, and finally the pope himself. The most harrowing chapter of the story describes in detail the judicial murder of a prisoner by the illegal use of enhanced interrogation techniques. Plus a change . . . ., [A] page-turner....What animates the pacing of this whodunit...is Monson's convincing construal of dialogue....One can admire the author's panache as a storyteller as much as his perspicacity as an archival sleuth., Monson's combination of style and substance makes this a thoroughly engaging work to read. His ability to move from the smallest of significant objects, silver-handled forks and scarlet jackets, to examine the struggles for power between the Pope and Europe's most powerful families is notable, resulting in a work highly enjoyable for academic and lay readers alike., [T]his account is engaging, both for seeing how a skilled historian brings together disparate sources and for the insights it provides into the social and cultural life of enterprising marginal women, violent young men, besotted lovers, too-clever-for-their-own good social climbers, haughty aristocrats, and determined prosecutors in early modern Italy. Just who the habitual offenders were in this motley crew remains to be hashed out in arguments among captivated readers., Craig Monson's most recent foray into the dalliances of early modern Italian nuns, Habitual Offenders , represents another remarkable feat of archival research and historical reconstruction. By combining court testimony and local gossip, high and low culture, Monson provides a detailed and carefully documented glimpse into the underbelly of Italian politics, religion, convent life, and intrigue., The range of sources gives us an ever clearer sense of the contortions, conflicts, and contradictions of the early modern judicial process. . . . Monson details how diverse convent communities were, disrupting early modern prescriptions and modern assumptions alike., The book is finely evocative of matters of life on the streets of Bologna and much else at the time. . . . [It] offers countless insights into its characters and their actions in a carefully constructed historical context., A box overflowing with exquisite linens and lace, a faux-marble cupboard with a cat painted on the side, and a red leather, reliquary crucifix whose 'top' had to be rescued from the convent sewer: Monson's latest foray into the archives plunges readers into an early modern world that pullulates with signifying objects. Their meanings unfold in the long series of investigations that follow on the murder of two remarkable women, former prostitutes become nuns whose flirtatious acumen as laundresses kept an admiring clientele crowding the convent gate. In reconstructing their story, Monson delivers cut-to-the-quick truths about survival strategies for individuals and families, both great and small, caught in networks from Bologna, through Venice and papal Rome, reaching as far as Mazarin and the king of France.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
364.152/30945411
Table Of Content
List of Figures Acknowledgments Cast of Characters Timeline Introduction Bologna 1 Airing Dirty Linen 2 A Tale of Two Sisters 3 The Soldier of Misfortune and the Tailor's Son 4 A Grave Mistake 5 Pas devant les Domestiques 6 Novus Homo 7 Light at the Top of the Stairs Rome 8 Dragnet 9 Cat and Mouse Games 10 Home Court Advantage Bologna 11 "In This Town They're All Malicious Liars!" 12 "I Don't Know This Suor Laura Vittoria!" 13 "Se Sarà Fatto Pamphilio / I Barberini Andrano in Esilio" 14 "A Few Days in Jail for Love of Me" 15 Return to the Scene of the Crime 16 A Gentleman Never Tells 17 Unfinished Business Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Synopsis
In April 1644, two nuns fled Bologna's convent for reformed prostitutes, and after a perfunctory archiepiscopal investigation went nowhere, the nuns were soon forgotten. After all, why would the disappearance of two former prostitutes, apparently too socially insignificant for the pope, the Bolognese archbishop, or anyone else to fret over, trouble respectable Bolognese? By June more than a year later, however, a stench drew a wealthy woman to the wine cellar of her Bolognese townhouse, reopened after a two-year absence, and there, to her and everyone else's horror, she discovered the eerily intact, garroted corpses of the missing nuns (or convertite ).This obliged the archbishop to reopen the case, and when the two main suspects turned out to be the son and the nephew of the newly crowned Pope's archrival--the fight was on. Four thousand pages of primary sources later, the intrepid Craig Monson has patiently reconstructed a fascinating micro-history of crime and punishment in seventeenth-century Bologna, one that puts faces on people "of the ordinary sort." They come from Italy's back streets and back stairs, and their words are those of lesser members of the social order, often barely audible or visible in conventional histories, and rarely encountered in historical narratives. In recreating the case of the convertite , Monson examines such issues as life strategies among prostitutes; maidservants and other marginal women; self-promoting "new men" hoping to make their way at the papal court without benefit of exalted birth; the life styles of mercenary soldiers, bandits, and other dubious figures negotiating the margins of polite society; and the fate of the two nuns, who, curiously, remain among the least known and most elusive characters of the story. With Monson's expert guidance, we may finally put faces to the least reputable, arguably the least familiar category of convent women who rarely appear in the scholarship on female monasticism, even though most seventeenth-century Italian cities and other Catholic regions in Europe of the time had their versions of convents filled with former prostitutes. For both seventeenth-century investigators and twenty-first-century true-crime readers alike, the Devil is indeed in the details, and Monson has a knack for telling a good true-crime story, revealing the twists and turns of a justice system during a time when women had very few options, legal or otherwise., 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.
LC Classification Number
HV6535.I83B658 2016
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