Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the English-Language Edition -- Preface -- Introduction: Justice-Revenge or Reconciliation? -- 1. Thou Shalt Not Kill -- 2. A Starting Point: Cesare Beccaria -- 3. The Law of Forgiveness, the Reality of Vengeance -- 4. The Murderer's Co...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge
Harvard University Press
2020
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| In: | Jahr: 2020 |
| Rezensionen: | [Rezension von: Prosperi, Adriano, 1939-, Crime and forgiveness] (2022) (Tracy, Larissa, 1974 -)
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Capital punishment-Europe-History
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| Parallele Ausgabe: | Erscheint auch als: 9780674659841 |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the English-Language Edition -- Preface -- Introduction: Justice-Revenge or Reconciliation? -- 1. Thou Shalt Not Kill -- 2. A Starting Point: Cesare Beccaria -- 3. The Law of Forgiveness, the Reality of Vengeance -- 4. The Murderer's Confession -- 5. The Earthly City, the Right to Kill, and the Ecclesiastical Power to Intercede -- 6. Bodies and Souls: Conflicts and Power Plays -- 7. Confession and Communion for the Condemned: A Rift between Church and State -- 8. Buried with Donkeys -- 9. A Special Burial Place -- 10. The Criminals' Crusade -- 11. "I Received His Head into My Hands -- 12. Factional Conflict and Mob Justice in the Late Middle Ages -- 13. "Holy Justice": The Turning Point of the Fifteenth Century -- 14. The Service -- 15. Political Crimes -- 16. Rome, a Capital -- 17. Reasoning on Death Row: The Birth and Development of the Arts of Comforting -- 18. A Charity of Nobles and the Powerful: The New Social Composition of the Companies -- 19. The Voices of the Condemned -- 20. Compassionate Cruelty: Michel de Montaigne and Catena -- 21. The Fate of the Body -- 22. Public Anatomy -- 23. Art and Spectacle at the Service of Justice -- 24. Capital Punishment as a Rite of Passage -- 25. The Arrival of the Jesuits: Confession and the Science of Cases -- 26. Laboratories of Uniformity: Theoretical Cases and Real People -- 27. Devotions for Executed Souls: Precepts and Folklore -- 28. Dying without Trembling: The Carlo Sala Case and the End of the Milanese Confraternity -- 29. Comforting of the Condemned in Catholic Europe -- 30. ". . . y piddiendo a Dios misericordia lo matan": The Jesuits and the Export of Comforting around the World -- 31. The German World, the Reformation, and the New Image of the Executioner -- 32. Printing and Scaffold Stories: Models Compared. |
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| ISBN: | 067424026X |