Crime and forgiveness : Christianizing execution in medieval Europe

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Crime and forgiveness : Christianizing execution in medieval Europe

Adriano Prosperi ; translated by Jeremy Carden

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020

  • : hardcover

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Delitto e perdono : la pena di morte nell'orizzonte mentale dell'Europa critiana, XIV-XVIII secolo

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Includes index

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  • Introduction: Justice - revenge or reconciliation?
  • Thou shalt not kill
  • A starting point : Cesare Beccaria
  • The law of forgiveness, the reality of vengeance
  • The murderer's confession
  • The earthly city, the right to kill, and the ecclesiastical power to intercede
  • Bodies and souls: conflicts and power plays
  • Confession and communion for the condemned : a rift between church and state
  • Buried with donkeys
  • A special burial place
  • The criminals' crusade
  • "I received his head into my hands"
  • Factional conflict and mob justice in the late Middle Ages
  • "Holy justice" : the turning point of the fifteenth century
  • The service
  • Political crimes
  • Rome, a capital
  • Reasoning on death row : the birth and development of the arts of comforting
  • A charity of nobles and the powerful : the new social composition of the companies
  • The voices of the condemned
  • Compassionate cruelty : Michel de Montaigne and Catena
  • The fate of the body
  • Public anatomy
  • Art and spectacle at the service of justice
  • Capital punishment as a rite of passage
  • The arrival of the Jesuits : confession and the science of cases
  • Laboratories of uniformity: theoretical cases and real people
  • Devotions for executed souls : precepts and folklore
  • Dying without trembling : the Carlo Sala case and the end of the Milanese confraternity
  • Comforting of the condemned in Catholic Europe
  • "...y piddiendo a Dios misericordia lo matan" : the Jesuits and the export of comforting around the world
  • The German world, the Reformation, and the new image of the executioner
  • Printing and scaffold stories : models compared
  • The slow epilogue of comforting in nineteenth-century Italy

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