The Benefits of Peace: Private Peacemaking in Late Medieval Italy

Glenn Kumhera, Ph.D. (2005), University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of History at Penn State University, The Behrend College. He has published on peace and peacemaking legislation in Siena.

Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Abbreviations ix
A Note on Usage x
Introduction 1
1 Peace and Concord 16
The Meanings of Peace 16
The Attraction of Peace: Features of the Instrumentum Pacis 28
Finding Conflict in a Peace 37
The Importance of Peace: Statutory Penalties for Peace-Breaking 54
2 Peacemaking in the Criminal Courts 59
Jurists and Statutes on Peacemaking and Procedure 61
A Case Study: Peacemaking and Denunciations in the
Sienese Contado 71
Peacemaking in Inquests Launched by Fama 86
The Use of Peace in Courts into the Quattrocento 89
3 Peacemaking and the Criminal Ban 93
Peacemaking’s Role in Rebannimentum 96
Rebannimentum Petitions and Amnesties 100
Peace and Prison Release 113
4 Placing the Public in Private Peacemaking 122
Between Public and Private Peacemaking 123
The Scene of Peace 128
Procurators and Peacemaking 135
Peacemaking through Friends 142
Arbitration and Peacemaking 146
5 Ecclesiastical Involvement in Peacemaking 156
Preaching Peace and Popular Peace Movements 157
Chief Ecclesiastics and Institutions in Peacemaking 165
Priests, Rectors, and Monks in Everyday Peacemaking 169
6 Performing Peace in Medieval Rome 175
7 Women and Minors in Peacemaking 204
Marriage as an Element of Peacemaking 205
Women in Peacemaking 212
Minors and Peacemaking 226
8 Assessing Peacemaking 235
The Motives for Peace 235
The Effectiveness of Peacemaking 247
Conclusion 255
Appendix A: Map 259
Appendix B: Tables 260
Bibliography 269
Index of Names 298
Index of Places 307
Index of Subjects 310