Periodic Reporting for period 1 - J-ViC (Changing Attitudes towards Judicial Violence in the Italian Communes, ca. 1260-1360)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2021-10-01 do 2023-09-30
1) Understanding why religious and lay attitudes towards judicial violence changed in the period 1260-1360, and how this related to the aforementioned contemporary socio-political
transformations;
2) Investigating the tension between rehabilitation and punishment as the objectives of judicial sanctions in past societies, and their relationship to changes in attitudes towards judicial violence among social actors;
3) Understanding the conditions under which crowds are convinced to consider an act of judicial violence as legitimate or illegitimate, and the role of emotions in this process.
- Secondary research mostly undertaken in the libraries of the University of Milan
- Primary research carried out in the State archives of Siena, Florence and Pisa
- Participation in conferences in Italy and the United Kingdom
- Organisation of an online seminar on medieval concepts of publicness
- Teaching a graduate seminar on the history of emotions at the University of Milan, plus guest lectures at Milan, Belgrade, Siena and Rio de Janeiro
- Preparation of three academic publications, two of which to be published in conference proceedings, one in a peer-reviewed journal
- Administrative and project management activities
- Identification of training needs and completion of relevant training courses in quantitative methods for History and in Digital Humanities