(Source: Routledge)
Routledge is publishing a book on the death
penalty in late-medieval Catalonia.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The death
penalty was unusual in medieval Europe until the twelfth century. From that
moment on, it became a key instrument of rule in European society, and we can
study it in the case of Catalonia through its rich and varied unpublished
documentation. The death penalty was justified by Roman Law; accepted by
Theology and Philosophy for the Common Good; and used by rulers as an
instrument for social intimidation. The application of the death penalty
followed a regular trial, and the status of the individual dictated the method
of execution, reserving the fire for the worst crimes, as the Inquisition
applied against the so-called heretics. The executions were public, and the
authorities and the people shared the common goal of restoring the will of God
which had been broken by the executed person. The death penalty took an
important place in the core of the medieval mind: people included executions in
the jokes and popular narratives while the gallows filled the landscape fitting
the jurisdictional limits and, also, showing rotten corpses to assert that the
best way to rule and order the society is by terror.
This book
utilises previously unpublished archival sources to present a unique study on
the death penalty in late Medieval Europe.
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
Flocel Sabaté is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lleida,
Spain and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina.
He is director of the journal Imago Temporis Medium Aevum and
president of the Association of the Historians of the Crown of Aragon. He
has served as a guest professor in universities and research centres as
Concepción, ENS (Lyon), JSPS (Tokyo), Lisboa, Mexico, Paris-1, Poitiers, and
Yale.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
List of
abbreviations
Chapter
One: Introduction
Chapter
Two: Precedent
times: The Early-Medieval Justice Before Major Crimes
Chapter
Three: Sovereignty
and merum imperium
Chapter
Four: The
Symbology of the Gallows: Jurisdiction and Terror
Chapter
Five: The
Death Penalty in the ‘plenitudo potestatis’
Chapter
Six: The
Death Penalty in the Non-Royal Jurisdictions
Chapter
Seven: The
Death Penalty in the Legislation and Municipal Capitality
Chapter
Eight: The
Death Penalty in Ordinary Justice
Chapter
Nine: The
Death Sentences
Chapter
Ten: The
Application of the Death Penalty: The Ceremony of Execution
Chapter
Eleven: The
Application of the Death Penalty: The Display of the Body
Chapter
Twelve: The
Application of the Death Penalty: Punishment by Fire
Chapter
Thirteen: More
Fire: The Inquisition and the Death Penalty
Chapter
Fourteen: The
Death Penalty and Otherness: Jews and Muslims Before the Death Penalty
Chapter
Fifteen: The
Death Penalty in the Mind
Chapter
Sixteen: The
Death Penalty in the Paths to Consolidate Power and Social Cohesion
Chapter
Seventeen: The
Death Penalty at the End of the Middle Ages in the Tense Catalonia
Chapter
Eighteen: Conclusions
Appendix
Index
More
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