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Health culture in Rab evidenced by the town’s 14 th century code
Đorđe Milović
; Umirovljeni profesor pravne povijesti Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The 14th century Code of Rab passed in 1326 dates from a period under the Venetian rule. It is a huge volume written in Latin that addresses most of the town’s issues of the time.
This paper is limited to regulations and issues related to the town’s health culture and is divided in three sections.
Regulations on the protection of public health
These regulations concern issues such as the ban from building lavatories inside houses divided between owners by wooden separation walls or the provisions not to move sick animals, not to skin animals outside slaughterhouses, not to sell smelly fish, provisions for innkeepers and greengrocers not to spin wool at workplace, provision not to keep swine outside sties, and the ban from making spurious wine.
Regulations on torture, mutilation, branding and burning at stake as punishment for crimes
Torture was used in questioning suspects of theft; a hand was severed for inflicting a bleeding wound unless the indicted could afford to pay the fine. Whipping and branding was used for forced defloration and for harlotry. Eyes were plucked out for forced defloration (in addition to whipping, branding and mutilation of the right hand). Burning at stake was the punishment for preparing harmful herb medicines and for sodomy.
The law of the talion (eye for an eye) in case of death caused by injury
Should the wounded die, the inflictor would be punished by receiving the identical wound in order to die the same death as the victim.
Ključne riječi
Law history; 14th century; Croatia; The Code of Rab; health culture
Hrčak ID:
82304
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Datum izdavanja:
15.6.2006.
Posjeta: 1.236 *