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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 493–518.
Published: 01 September 2023
... trial took criminal adjudication a step further away from the supernatural, from the waters or hot iron blessed by a priest capable of acting in persona Christi , to the judgment of typically twelve laymen speaking under solemn oath. It placed the power and burden of issuing a felony verdict squarely...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 January 2024
... criminal trials physiognomy readings of the body judicial evidence If our faces were not similar, we could not distinguish man from beast: if they were not dissimilar, we could not distinguish man from man. —Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience” From the earliest days of civilization...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 January 2024
...–70, at 163. 27 John Jeffries Martin, “Francesco Casoni and the Rhetorical Forensics of the Body,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 45, no. 1 (2015): 103–30, at 104. On reading bodily signs in criminal trials in nineteenth-century Ireland, see Katie Barclay, “Performing Emotion...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 309–338.
Published: 01 May 2000
..., Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (New York: Routledge,
1997), 49.
16 Thomas Andrew Green provides a helpful discussion of the pragmatics of gathering
evidence in early modern criminal trials in Verdict according to Conscience: Perspectives
on the English Criminal Trial...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 349–375.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to, or advocated for, my imprisonment. 10 These legal formulas were often used when a criminal trial did not yield a confession.11 All criminal cases at the time not just witch trials required a confession, the queen of evidence [regina probationum].12 Mar- gareth Los had refused to confess, despite extreme...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 January 2000
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8 For similar rhetoric, see Lyndal Roper, “Will and Honour: Sex, Words, and Power in
Augsburg Criminal Trials,” in Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality, and Religion
in Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 1994), 53–78.
9 Richard van...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 89–111.
Published: 01 January 2024
... Sassoferrato (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2003). For the epistemological contributions of theology to the development of modern European law, see also James Q. Whitman, The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008). 22...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 January 2017
....2 My own engagement with
microhistory was, like so many of the very events we study, at once quirkily
accidental and structurally preset. In the early to middle 1980s, I wandered
into criminal trials from Rome, wonderful stories both startlingly eloquent
and charmingly baffling, and wanting...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 7–52.
Published: 01 January 2015
... the ultimate step in a series by
which a criminal was progressively removed from civil society: the arrest by
neighbors or civic authorities was the first step, trial by a foreign judge the
second, removal beyond the city walls the third, death the last. Those who
died were those whom the community had...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 January 2024
... was instead attributable to some preexisting condition, potentially exonerating a suspect from capital conviction. Devaux stresses the importance of the surgeon's findings concerning previous illness or infirmity in order to assign blame properly: “this information is very necessary in criminal procedure...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., and judicial beliefs, which were far from consistent. But judges by necessity were forced to read the bodies of the accused for hints of guilt or innocence in the difficult process of carrying out their trials. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Francesco Casoni physical body and torture early...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 157–182.
Published: 01 January 2000
... and transgression
Arjava, Antti. Women and Law in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
(1996) 1998. xi, 304 pp. Paper $24.95.
Bellamy, J. G. The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England: Felony before
the Courts from Edward I to the Sixteenth Century. Toronto...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 617–635.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., see Andreas Frei, Birgit Völm, Marc Graff, and Voker Dittmann, “Female Serial Killing: Review and Case Report,” Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 16 (2006): 167–76; and Michael Kelleher and C. L. Kelleher, Murder Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer (Westport, Conn.: Praeger/Greenwood, 1998...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 January 2015
... of
each suicide raised potentially divisive questions of ritual form and admin-
istrative authority.”9 Since suicide was widely considered to be a tacit admis-
sion of guilt by those awaiting criminal trial, their corpses fared among the
worst.10 Little is known about how the bodies of suicidal nuns...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 509–531.
Published: 01 September 2021
... a scenario in which the only way for the reader to understand the medicine's working is by trial, and therefore, Winter concludes, “let such repair to this our Stage, and to the Glory of God, and the verifying of the Truth, they shall find presently the wonderful Virtues of this our Elixir or Vegetable...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 33–56.
Published: 01 January 2024
...John Jeffries Martin In 1561, Francesco Casoni published De arte, ac ratione in criminum causis disserendi , a dialogue that offered judges a rigorous method of investigation in criminal cases in which eyewitness testimony or a confession was lacking. Typically, in such cases, judges relied...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 89–115.
Published: 01 January 2016
....
These sequels and spin-offs were composed by multiple authors over a span
of about four decades; during that time the debate transformed from a set of
tightly focused texts staging the trial of the author and then of the title char-
acter to responses more loosely inspired by the original poem.1...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 533–551.
Published: 01 September 2021
... ultimately repeat—reenact and perform—versions of the crimes they seek to examine. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 early modern witchcraft pamphlets magic rape violence trial proceedings Toward the end of the 1628 pamphlet A Briefe Description of the Notorious Life of Iohn...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 433–445.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., Elizabeth. Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England . The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 311 pp., 10 figs. Hardcover, ebook. Bergman, Ted L. L. The Criminal Baroque: Lawbreaking, Peacekeeping, and Theatricality in Early Modern Spain...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 193–198.
Published: 01 January 2017
... been aware of the richness of
pardon letters as prospective sources.12 Peter Arnade and Elizabeth Colwill’s
article explores the possibilities of fifteenth-century pardon letters — “written
appeals for clemency from criminal charges” — found in the archives in
Lille, which frequently recount...
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