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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 January 2015
...- 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 January 2015
...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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 7–52.
Published: 01 January 2015
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 493–518.
Published: 01 September 2023
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 January 2000
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 503–531.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Warning All Men to the Judgemente (1581), and in the chronicle 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Katherine Dauge-Roth Early modern judicial procedure privileged the reading of bodily signs at every stage of investigation. In cases of violent crime, careful reading of the victim's body was essential to reconstituting the events of a crime and determining its gravity and appropriate punishment...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 283–312.
Published: 01 May 2001
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 33–56.
Published: 01 January 2024
... and have been approved by the law, they may be called indicia indubitata , from which it is possible to proceed to a condemnation on the grounds that, just as it is possible to impose capital punishment when the accused is overcome by testimony or has confessed in his own voice, so in the same way, when...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of Bodo Nischan , ed . John M. Headley, Hans J. Hillerbrand, and Anthony J. Papalas (Aldershot, Hampshire: Routledge, 2004), 175–205, at 185. 18 See Richard J. Evans, Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600–1987 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 35–41. 19 Die...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 369–391.
Published: 01 May 2013
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 311–334.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 445–482.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to God is punishment . So, for Calvin, satisfaction is punishment. But what kind of punishment would satisfy the God Calvin worships? Calvin asserts that God could not have been satisfied had his Son suffered slaughter at the hand of robbers (“a latronibus”), or if he had been tumultuously killed...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (1): 57–74.
Published: 01 January 2007
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 147–166.
Published: 01 January 2017
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 167–192.
Published: 01 January 2017
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 January 2010
...; 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 479–504.
Published: 01 September 2000
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 407–432.
Published: 01 May 2009
... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 343–374.
Published: 01 May 2002
... 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...