A history of public executions in France from the medieval spectacle of suffering to the invention of the Revolutionary guillotine, up to the last public execution in 1939. Paul Friedland explores why spectacles of public execution were staged, as well as why thousands of spectators came to watch them.
A history of public executions in France from the medieval spectacle of suffering to the invention of the Revolutionary guillotine, up to the last public execution in 1939. Paul Friedland explores why spectacles of public execution were staged, as well as why thousands of spectators came to watch them.
Paul Friedland is an affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He is currently a fellow of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University (2011-2012). His first book, Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution (2002), was awarded the Pinkney Prize for the best book of the year by the Society for French Historical Studies.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: Reading and Writing a History of Punishment * Part I: The Roots of Modern Punishment in Pre-Modern Europe * 1: The Fall and Rise of Rome: Compensation, Atonement, and Deterrence in the Early Middle Ages * 2: Criminal Intent and Spectacular Punishment: The Infiltration of Roman Legal Theory and Practice into French Customary Law * PART II: Executioners and the Ritual of Execution * 3: Extraordinary Beings: The Life and Work of Executioners * 4: The Execution of Justice: The Ritual of Punishment in Medieval and Early Modern France * PART III: Spectators and Spectacle * 5: From Ritual to Spectacle: The Rise of the Penal Voyeur in Early Modern France * 6: Executions, Spectator Emotions, and the Naturalization of Sympathy * 7: A Spectacular Crisis: Watching Executions in the Age of Sensibilité * Part IV: A Death Penalty for the Modern Age * 8: Theorizing a New Death Penalty: Penal Reform on the Eve of the Revolution * 9: Legislating the New Death Penalty: The Simple Deprivation of Life * 10: Executing the New Death Penalty: The Invisible Spectacle of the Guillotine * Epilogue: The Play Over, The Actors (Slowly) Leave the Stage (1794-1939) * Conclusion: Punishment Past and Present
* Introduction: Reading and Writing a History of Punishment * Part I: The Roots of Modern Punishment in Pre-Modern Europe * 1: The Fall and Rise of Rome: Compensation, Atonement, and Deterrence in the Early Middle Ages * 2: Criminal Intent and Spectacular Punishment: The Infiltration of Roman Legal Theory and Practice into French Customary Law * PART II: Executioners and the Ritual of Execution * 3: Extraordinary Beings: The Life and Work of Executioners * 4: The Execution of Justice: The Ritual of Punishment in Medieval and Early Modern France * PART III: Spectators and Spectacle * 5: From Ritual to Spectacle: The Rise of the Penal Voyeur in Early Modern France * 6: Executions, Spectator Emotions, and the Naturalization of Sympathy * 7: A Spectacular Crisis: Watching Executions in the Age of Sensibilité * Part IV: A Death Penalty for the Modern Age * 8: Theorizing a New Death Penalty: Penal Reform on the Eve of the Revolution * 9: Legislating the New Death Penalty: The Simple Deprivation of Life * 10: Executing the New Death Penalty: The Invisible Spectacle of the Guillotine * Epilogue: The Play Over, The Actors (Slowly) Leave the Stage (1794-1939) * Conclusion: Punishment Past and Present
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