Katherine Royer

The English Execution Narrative, 1200-1700

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population at large. She argues that what began as a show of retribution and revenge became a ceremonial portrayal of redemption as the political, religious and cultural landscape of England evolved.

Produktdetails

• "The Body, Gender and Culture"
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781848933989
• ISBN-10: 1848933983
• Artikelnr.: 43598705

Autorenporträt

Katherine Royer

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Setting up the Scaffold in Late Medieval and Early Modern
England; Chapter 1 The Body in Space: Describing the Distribution of
Dismembered Traitors in Late Medieval England; Chapter 2 The Case of the
Missing Blood: Silence and the Semiotics of Judicial Violence; Chapter
3 From Augustine to Aquinas: Death, Time and the Body on the Scaffold;
Chapter 4 Dressed for Dying: Contested Visions, Clothes and the
Construction of Identity on the Scaffold in Early Modern England; Chapter 5
The Last Words of that 'Cunning Coiner' Henry Cuffe: Revisiting the
Seventeenth-Century Execution Narrative;