Seeing justice done : the age of spectacular capital punishment in France /
This title presents 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 spectat...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, U.K. :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The fall and rise of Rome: compensation, atonement, and deterrence in the early middle ages
- Criminal intent and spectacular punishment: the infiltration of roman legal theory and practice into French customary law
- Extraordinary beings: the life and work of executioners
- The execution of justice: the ritual of punishment in medieval and early modern France
- From ritual to spectacle: the rise of the penal voyeur in early modern France
- Executions, spectator emotions, and the naturalization of sympathy
- A spectacular crisis: watching executions in the age of sensibilité
- Theorizing a new death penalty: penal reform on the eve of the revolution
- Legislating the new death penalty: the simple deprivation of life
- Executing the new death penalty: the invisible spectacle of the guillotine.