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The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice (review)

treat coiners as traitors, and pardons were routine. Gaskill argues that the belief that God was implicated in the exposure and punishment of murder inouenced its social and judicial treatment. He outlines both unofacial and ofacial procedures that operated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the improved policing, evidence gathering, and medico-legal standards of proof that ensued in the eighteenth century. He again highlights too-often neglected pretrial procedures and considers such topics as Providence, the varieties of homicide, print culture in disseminating and reinforcing ideas related to murder and the invocation of apparitions, dreams, and corpse touching as means of revealing murderers. Although Gaskill characterizes justice as being socially constructed in the courtroom, he demonstrates that much of the social construction of crime occurred before trial. Although some readers will question whether Gaskill’s invocation of “mentalities” contributes much to this study, Gatskill offers important new insights in relating legal to cultural history.