Capital and corporal punishment in Anglo-Saxon England / edited by Jay Paul Gates and Nicole Marafioti
Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014. First Edition. Fine copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Item #379761
ISBN: 9781843839187
Physical description: xvi, 208 pages: illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England -- 1. When Compensation Costs an Arm and a Leg -- 2. Beginnings and Legitimation of Punishment in Early Anglo-Saxon Legislation From the Seventh to the Ninth Century -- 3. Genital Mutilation in Medieval Germanic Law -- 4. 'Sick-Maintenance' and Earlier English Law -- 5. Incarceration as Judicial Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. 6. Earthly Justice and Spiritual Consequences: Judging and Punishing in the Old English Consolation of Philosophy -- 7. Osteological Evidence of Corporal and Capital Punishment in Later Anglo-Saxon England -- 8. Mutilation and Spectacle in Anglo-Saxon Legislation -- 9. The 'Worcester' Historians and Eadric Streona's Execution -- 10. Capital Punishment and the Anglo-Saxon Judicial Apparatus: A Maximum View? -- Index. Subjects: Corporal punishment Great Britain History Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066. SOCIAL SCIENCE Criminology. HISTORY Medieval. Great Britain History Anglo Saxon period, 449-1066 ; Congresses.
Price: €65.00