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Crime and Forgiveness : Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe / Adriano Prosperi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (624 p.)Content type:
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- 33. The Slow Epilogue of Comforting in Nineteenth-Century Italy -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations
Summary: The public execution of criminals has been a common practice since ancient times. Adriano Prosperi identifies a crucial period when concepts of vengeance and justice merged with Christian beliefs in repentance and forgiveness, to eventually give political authorities a moral rationale for encoding the death penalty into law.
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- 33. The Slow Epilogue of Comforting in Nineteenth-Century Italy -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations

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The public execution of criminals has been a common practice since ancient times. Adriano Prosperi identifies a crucial period when concepts of vengeance and justice merged with Christian beliefs in repentance and forgiveness, to eventually give political authorities a moral rationale for encoding the death penalty into law.

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