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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 293–321.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the perimeter and epicenter that a theater affords in organizing its performances of cruelty. Beheadings were often post- combat improvisations, carried out near the field of battle, through the process of ferreting out insurrectionists, and by enemies of the state. And so we learn that in 1451 at Rochester ix...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 387–395.
Published: 01 September 2021
... critical eye we typically train on the play text, but the “script” would now be the ephemeral repertoire captured tenuously by the archival record of particular scenes of subversion: carnivalesque mockeries, public beheadings, and, of course, actual depositions. Why not read such accounts with the same...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 7–52.
Published: 01 January 2015
... corresponding to almost every form of exe-
cution possible — hanging, beheading, flaying alive, and burning. Jacopo
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Voragine’s Golden Legend provided the characters and script. While almost
all saints and martyrs were from the period...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 269–291.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of defeated muteness on the part of her torturers: The king . . . nuste hwet meanen ah het swithe with hire of his ehsihthe ant biheafdin utewith the barren of the burhe [The king . . . did not know what to say but commanded her to be taken quickly from his sight and beheaded outside the gates of the city...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 269–305.
Published: 01 May 2012
... her with the devil- as- dragon under-
foot. The next day, she is stripped naked before a large crowd, branded,
boiled, and finally beheaded. Her death itself is a triumph. Just before she
meekly bows her head to receive the sword, an earthquake encourages five
thousand pagans to convert...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 419–443.
Published: 01 May 2013
... sisters, children, servants, husband, and even
King Charles II.40 Notations referencing these circuits are so frequent that
it seems as though any mention of beheadings and births, accounts of troop
developments, and records of financial transactions are mere interruptions to
the calm, consistent...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 397–453.
Published: 01 May 2006
... preeminent importance: May
19, 1536, the beheading of Anne Boleyn. When the English king killed his
queen, having supervised the technicalities of her beheading with particu-
lar attentiveness while composing a tragedy for the occasion, he effectively
terminated the potential of a long-lived social...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 211–246.
Published: 01 May 2000
... conversion from a pagan to a Christian city:
Here Peter was crucified; there Paul was beheaded; here Lawrence
was burned, who after being buried here, was succeeded by
Stephen. Here John scorned the burning oil; there Agnes after her
death came back to life and forbade her kin...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 61–78.
Published: 01 January 2018
... be sure
of that. The origin of the corpse is again remarkable. Once more, this was
not a criminal but, quite to the contrary, a victim of crime. The husband,
Handsch notes, had killed the woman, allegedly because she had refused
to prostitute herself. He was eventually beheaded and anatomized...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 365–385.
Published: 01 May 2018
... the saint’s martyrdom. Comprised of eight couplets
of iambic pentameter, the poem begins with a description of the scene in the
window — “This Image of our frailty, painted Glass” — in which the knight
who beheaded Alban is shown losing his own eyes by divine punishment.
The poem’s reference...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 531–548.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., prefigures and justifies the miracle at his execution: “after
his [Brian’s] beheading, him self dismembred, his hart, bowels, and intrailes
burned, to the great admiration of some, being laid vpon the blocke his belly
downeward, lifted vp his whole body then remayning from the ground” (A
Briefe...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 373–391.
Published: 01 May 2007
... that Galeholt’s father
was an Irish knight who became Lord of the Distant Isles because of a cus-
tom established there many generations earlier. A pagan giant was the lord
of the realm and, when his sons converted to Christianity, he flew into a
rage and murdered all twelve of them. He also beheaded all...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (3): 463–485.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., Yaghi Siyan
has Rainald beheaded. Not content with a single death, Yaghi Siya orders his
men to round up all of the Christian pilgrims within the city. He has them
bound, stripped naked, and burned in a large pyre. Tudebode emphasizes
both the martyrdom of Rainald, who rejected wealth...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 469–491.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., but there is no doubt even in their own eyewitness
accounts, when things go wrong afterwards, that this has been God’s judg-
ment on their conduct. Their narrative after 1204 is one of progressive diffi-
culty, as early as 1205 when the new Frankish emperor Baldwin was captured
by the Bulgars and beheaded. Most...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 201–226.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Church by the schismatic king (“plurimi fuissent
baptizati et uniti ecclesie orthodoxe, processu temporis eadem civitatis per
regem Bozorad [i.e., Vladislav Vlaicu] scismaticum Those who refused
conversion were beheaded (“eis capita amputaverunt These events show
that the territorial dispute...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 397–429.
Published: 01 September 2021
... a seated ape who examines a urine flask that he holds aloft (see fig. 12 ). 42 This portion of the Restoration of the Peacock , which began on fol. 164v, relates the past history of Emenidus (here called Aymes). Miniatures on fol. 168v show him saving the life of Roxanne by beheading a robber...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 381–404.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., for example, involved both
hanging and beheading, two of the three punishments used in the execution
of traitors (the third, “suche other,” was evisceration).27 For Whitford, the
“remembraunce” of Reynolds’s death was no doubt firmly “set” “before the
eyes and syght” of the “soule.” It is worth noting...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 285–311.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., Richard II issued a royal commission granting London political leaders (Nicholas Brembre among them) the authority to punish by law, beheading, or “mutilation of limbs” the defeated rebels who have not dispersed but “at present assemble in illegal groups.” 20 This is an extreme if perhaps unsurprising...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 405–432.
Published: 01 May 2023
... sessions. Bishop George Carleton, the senior clergyman at the synod, closed the proceedings with a speech to the States General, declaring that truth had prevailed against domestic heretics and the plots of the foreign Catholic “Antichrist.” 5 Oldenbarnevelt was sentenced to death and beheaded...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 343–374.
Published: 01 May 2002
... streams from the tree; a
slave who tries to hold back the king’s arm is beheaded for his “pious
thought.” The voice of a nymph from inside the tree assures the king that he
will be punished. At the behest of her nymphs, Ceres curses him with insa-
tiable Famine, who leads him to eat his entire...
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