... governed by local political conditions. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 physical body crime and capital punishment early modern confraternities a Body Politics: The Criminal Body between Public and Private...

...- 114  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 45.1 / 2015 tion for lesser crimes, were insufficient for the imposition of capital punish- ment. Furthermore, like many other late medieval and Renaissance jurists, he believed it prudent, in such circumstances, to torture the suspect...

...Romedio Schmitz-Esser This essay looks at the practice of burning corpses in the Middle Ages. Much research has concentrated on the later medieval period; however, the punishment of burning and its specific motivations and rationales for crimes such as heresy, witchcraft, and magic go back to much...

... in medieval English legal and literary culture. 84 As Rolle would translate Psalm 72:8, “Thai thought and thai spake felony; wickedness in heigh they spake.” 85 Felony was, at its heart, a state of mind. Felony was also a category of crime for which capital punishment was generally the assigned penalty...

... Dülmen, Theatre of Horror: Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany, trans. Elisabeth Neu (Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1990), 80, 88–91; R. Liebenwirth, “Ertränken,” in Handwörterbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte, ed. Adalbert Stammler...

... of persecutors punished that John Foxe appended to his Protestant martyrology, the Actes and Monuments . 8 Undergirding and feeding all these collections were countless pamphlets, broadsides, and ballads recounting hideous crimes and sensational wonders. Many of these popular texts, such as the “murder...

... they call Agnus dei, nor other their reliques, nor yet their opinions for the ceremonies or rites of the Church of Rome: and therefore it is to be certainly concluded that these did iustly deserue their capital punishments as traitors, though they were...

... a punishment on the Fox that has pointedly nothing to do with his physical or sexual threats. On the contrary, he is condemned for his betrayal of trust, not for his illegal crimes but for his social offences. It seems the ultimate vic- tory of legal regulation over the horror of bare faith...

..., an Augustinian canon named Simon arrived in Cremona, having traveled there from Paris, capital city of medieval theology. He was appalled by a local practice which seemed to be flourishing without official censure or restraint. The nearby Church of St. John of the Desert was offer- ing on Ascension Day...

... torture scenes being enkindled with “love,” but easier to see how they might well feel relief that Christ was receiving the Father's punishment as a substitute for them. But even such relief would immediately raise an acute anxiety: only the eternally elected people have reason to feel relief, and what...

... to focus on the emergence of capitalism and the free labor mar- ket during these years, even such mercantile and manufacturing centers as Catalonia and north-center Italy remained remarkably active in the slave trade and in the use of slave labor. Elsewhere, over large swaths of the Medi- terranean...

... or capital punishment, to spin a good story was to save one’s neck. The ability of the accused to evoke empathy, perform integrity, and narrate skillfully could determine his fate. Take, for example, the 1506 petition of Gillekin Dubois, a self-­described “poor, young man” and servant to a household...

... night in August 1684, some time after darkness had fallen over the Spanish colonial capital of Manila, a series of notices, written in Chinese, mysteriously appeared throughout the parian, the segregated Chinese ghetto-­cum-­marketplace located just beyond the city walls. One was posted outside...

...; Martin Bucer, De Regno Christi, in Wilhelm Pauck, ed., Melanchthon and Bucer (Phil- adelphia: Westminster Press, 1969), 186. Chief Justice Antonin Scalia quoted Romans 13:1 – 5 in full when arguing for the legitimacy of capital punishment. “The core of [Paul’s] message,” he argues...

... boca), but the Mudejar by kissing on the shoulder (besando en el hombro), and the ceremony ends with a ritualistic accusation of unprovoked violence by a Christian, Francisco de Cuevas, against a Mudejar, Ibrahim de Xabe, for which the latter is punished for a period...

... is presented as the capital of poetic France, a place of pure poetry thanks to its association with Ronsard himself. It is at this point in A sa lyre, in the context of redemptive chorography, that the Gâtine enters the picture. Like the Loir, which appears again beside it, the naming of the Gâtine...

... capitalism that gave birth to the genre in More's Utopia , however, female utopian thought is differently manifested as well. In the “Wyll,” the contradictions attending the moment of transition are embodied in the dissonant form of a poem that, in its first half, describes a city of abundance, and in its...

...—reenacting and performing—versions of the crimes they seek to examine.” While ostensibly concerned to document the mechanisms of discovery, proof, and punishment that nefarious deeds deserve, her reading reveals how such texts ultimately enable “the obfuscation and mystification” of what they purport...

... and probable emperor Ferdinand. In May of 1618, Protestant Bohemian noblemen had flung Ferdinand's representatives out of the third-story window of the Bohemian Chancellery. In February 1619, as the theologians deliberated at Dort and Oldenbarnevelt's treason trial got underway at the Dutch capital city...

... issues surrounding crime, mercy, and punishment that sanctuary inspired. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 a Stranger Artisans and the London Sanctuary of St. Martin le Grand...