We both know a lot yet very little about the character of the medieval and the modern executioner. In addition, our perceptions of this phenomenon are strongly influenced by external factors, such as those constructed during the romantic period and our more pointed knowledge of the everyday life of the masters of the guillotine. In other words, what we know mostly concern a period when the professional development of the artisans of punishment is at its culmination. Based on the realities that come through the deconstruction of this inherited conception of the executioner, this thesis, which is mainly based on urban and judicial officers accounts, analyses the origins of these particular artisans and their actions (torture and criminal exec...
International audienceA wealthy executioner: Claude-Antoine Chrétien (1767-1849), from Chalon-sur-Sa...
An unfinished manuscript, the Premieres idées sur la reformation des loix criminelles by Goswin de F...
An unfinished manuscript, the Premieres idées sur la reformation des loix criminelles by Goswin de F...
We both know a lot yet very little about the character of the medieval and the modern executioner. I...
Executioners, whose existence is attested as early as the Middle Ages, experienced a progressive alt...
Executioners, whose existence is attested as early as the Middle Ages, experienced a progressive alt...
International audienceThe count of Burgundy in the early fifteenth century was the sovereign lord in...
Ce travail a pour objectif d’étudier certaines représentations – écrites et imagées – des exécutions...
If one of the first accomplishments of the French Revolution was to prohibit torture, attempts to ab...
Cette étude porte sur la torture judiciaire ou « question », élément de la procédure inquisitoire en...
International audienceThe law of the French Revolution reinvented the figure of the executioner, whi...
Posing as a New Justinian, Louis the XlVth requested a bunch of forty highly skilled jurists to prep...
Posing as a New Justinian, Louis the XlVth requested a bunch of forty highly skilled jurists to prep...
International audienceA wealthy executioner: Claude-Antoine Chrétien (1767-1849), from Chalon-sur-Sa...
International audienceA wealthy executioner: Claude-Antoine Chrétien (1767-1849), from Chalon-sur-Sa...
International audienceA wealthy executioner: Claude-Antoine Chrétien (1767-1849), from Chalon-sur-Sa...
An unfinished manuscript, the Premieres idées sur la reformation des loix criminelles by Goswin de F...
An unfinished manuscript, the Premieres idées sur la reformation des loix criminelles by Goswin de F...
We both know a lot yet very little about the character of the medieval and the modern executioner. I...
Executioners, whose existence is attested as early as the Middle Ages, experienced a progressive alt...
Executioners, whose existence is attested as early as the Middle Ages, experienced a progressive alt...
International audienceThe count of Burgundy in the early fifteenth century was the sovereign lord in...
Ce travail a pour objectif d’étudier certaines représentations – écrites et imagées – des exécutions...
If one of the first accomplishments of the French Revolution was to prohibit torture, attempts to ab...
Cette étude porte sur la torture judiciaire ou « question », élément de la procédure inquisitoire en...
International audienceThe law of the French Revolution reinvented the figure of the executioner, whi...
Posing as a New Justinian, Louis the XlVth requested a bunch of forty highly skilled jurists to prep...
Posing as a New Justinian, Louis the XlVth requested a bunch of forty highly skilled jurists to prep...
International audienceA wealthy executioner: Claude-Antoine Chrétien (1767-1849), from Chalon-sur-Sa...
International audienceA wealthy executioner: Claude-Antoine Chrétien (1767-1849), from Chalon-sur-Sa...
International audienceA wealthy executioner: Claude-Antoine Chrétien (1767-1849), from Chalon-sur-Sa...
An unfinished manuscript, the Premieres idées sur la reformation des loix criminelles by Goswin de F...
An unfinished manuscript, the Premieres idées sur la reformation des loix criminelles by Goswin de F...