Crime and forgiveness : Christianizing execution in medieval Europe /
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press ,
2020
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Table of Contents:
- Thou shalt not kill
- A starting point: Cesare Beccaria
- The law of forgiveness, the reality of vengeance
- The murderer's confession
- The earthly city, the right to kill, and the ecclesiastical power to intercede
- Bodies and souls: conflicts and power plays
- Confessions and communion for the condemned: a rift between church and state
- Buried with donkeys: the fate of the body
- A special burial place
- The criminals' crusade
- "I received his head into my hands"
- Factional conflict and mob justice in the late Middle Ages
- "Holy justice": the turning point of the fifteenth century
- The service
- Political crimes
- Rome, a capital
- Reasoning on death row: the birth and development of the arts of comforting
- A charity of nobles and the powerful: the new social composition of the companies
- The voices of the condemned
- Compassionate cruelty: Michel de Montaigne and Catena
- The fate of the body
- Public anatomy
- Art and spectacle at the service of justice
- Capital punishment as a rite of passage
- The arrival of the Jesuits: confession and the science of cases
- Laboratories of uniformity: theoretical cases and real people
- Devotions for executed souls: precepts and folklore
- Dying without trembling: the Carlo Sala case and the end of the Milanese confraternity
- Comforting of the condemned in Catholic Europe
- "...y piddiendo a Dios misericordialo matan": the Jesuits and the export of comforting around the world
- The German world, the Reformation, and the new image of the executioner
- Printing and scaffold stories: models compared
- The slow epilogue of comforting in nineteenth-century Italy