Perquè ara, gràcies a Déu, hi ha justícia
In January 2008, the Abadia de Montserrat Publications published a study about the brigandage and criminality in Andorra during the XVIth century by the Danish historian Lars Martin Pohle.
Pohle was born in Rudkobing, Denmark, in 1969. He studied history and ethnology in the University of Copenhaguen and finished his degree in 1996. He came to Andorra in 1997 to live with his wife.
The present book is the result of two years of research granted by the Andorran Government.
The judicial documents represent a great sourse to be able to approach the past. In Andorra, during the years 1600-1640, more than 850 people found themselves involved in a penal process. Through the thousands of judicial acts found, we will discover the characteristics of the numerous crimes, transgressions and conflicts. We learn about their causes and we observe how the justice worked and which standards of judgement, lines and rules were applied.
People, that otherwise we would have never met, are presented to us: Catherina Foresta: her daughter was battered by her husband and herself was accused, on three ocasions, of sorcery; Andreu Cerdanya: incompetent coin forger; Jeronima Francesca: a shepherds' whore; Catherina Lluïsa: battered; Joan Scuderi: thief and head of a little gang; Joana Call: accused of sorcery in a fascinating process; lo Cabellut, Andreu Roca i Simón Peferrer: brigands; as well as many other people, young and old, men and women from the Andorran modern age.