This dissertation explores representations of the punished criminal body as it moved in, out and through the city during punishment rituals in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. The transgressive body was put on view at a number of publicly accessible sites such as the Town Hall and Town Square where criminal trials and executions occurred; the gallows field where dead criminal bodies were placed on display; and the anatomy theatre where cadavers were dissected in search of new anatomical knowledge. This study investigates the social, religious and legal importance of spaces of criminal punishment, placing particular emphasis on the uses of various media to advertise and transmit information about public executions and dissections. The...
This dataset contains data on criminality in several places in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from CUP via the DOI in this ...
Ce travail a pour objectif d’étudier certaines représentations – écrites et imagées – des exécutions...
AbstractIn The Hague, on August 20th, 1672, the Grand Pensionary of Holland, Johan DeWitt and his br...
From the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, and even in the seventeenth century, it was not uncomm...
This contribution addresses the complex relation between ‘sovereign’ power, legitimate State violenc...
This short essay explains the various methods of punishment that existed in early modern Europe, and...
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s great painting of The Triumph of Death of around 1562-1563 and to a lesse...
The Murder Act (1752) decreed that homicide perpetrators should be hanged and sent for post-executio...
This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eightee...
Between 1893 and 1913, more than 170 men and women faced a jury inside the Cour d’assises of Brabant...
While crime broadsides were a prominent part of eighteenth and nineteenth century print culture in c...
We both know a lot yet very little about the character of the medieval and the modern executioner. I...
Capital jurisdiction, criminality and everyday life on domain of Náchod and in king's town Nymburk b...
This dataset contains data on criminality in several places in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from CUP via the DOI in this ...
Ce travail a pour objectif d’étudier certaines représentations – écrites et imagées – des exécutions...
AbstractIn The Hague, on August 20th, 1672, the Grand Pensionary of Holland, Johan DeWitt and his br...
From the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, and even in the seventeenth century, it was not uncomm...
This contribution addresses the complex relation between ‘sovereign’ power, legitimate State violenc...
This short essay explains the various methods of punishment that existed in early modern Europe, and...
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s great painting of The Triumph of Death of around 1562-1563 and to a lesse...
The Murder Act (1752) decreed that homicide perpetrators should be hanged and sent for post-executio...
This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eightee...
Between 1893 and 1913, more than 170 men and women faced a jury inside the Cour d’assises of Brabant...
While crime broadsides were a prominent part of eighteenth and nineteenth century print culture in c...
We both know a lot yet very little about the character of the medieval and the modern executioner. I...
Capital jurisdiction, criminality and everyday life on domain of Náchod and in king's town Nymburk b...
This dataset contains data on criminality in several places in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from CUP via the DOI in this ...
Ce travail a pour objectif d’étudier certaines représentations – écrites et imagées – des exécutions...