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Andrea Zorzi, « Contrôle social, ordre public et répression judiciaire à Florence à l'époque communale : éléments et problèmes », Annales (documents), ID : 10.3406/ahess.1990.278897
Social Control, Public Order, and Juridical Repression in Florence during the Communal Era: Elements and Problems. Between the end of the thirteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth, Florence's juridical system underwent profound change due to problems experienced maintaining public order due to the violence of the magnates, popular uprisings, and unrest in the countryside. This article attempts to define, within the general framework of the shift from communal organization to the concentration of power in an oligarchical and seigniorial manner, the crisis informs of social control exercised at the town level, while an ever more extensive organization of public mechanisms of control and juridical repression was developing.