Description: In a series of essays based on surviving documents of actual court practices
Review Quotes: "Eloquently translated into English for the first time by Sarah Rubin Blanshei, who offers an insightful foreword to the work, Medieval Public Justice is a compelling account of the complexities of medieval legal systems particularly in Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Medieval Public Justice offers a wealth of historical, literary, and judicial information Vallerani's analysis is engaging and interesting."--Mediaevistik
"Medieval Public Justice is a very valuable and stimulating book, deserving of a wide readership a book that succeeds admirably in combining technical legal history with the history of disputes and of local politics required reading for legal historians..."--John Hudson, Catholic Historical Review