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This volume focuses on a feature of executions that was unique to Renaissance Italy: the presence in prisons and on scaffolds of laymen, gathered in confraternities called "conforterie," who worked with prisoners to prepare them spiritually and psychologically for execution. The book includes both primary sources and a series of essays that expand on the theatrical, artistic, theological, musical, and historical contexts of comforting.

Executions and executioners --- History. --- Capital punishment --- Capital punishment. --- Executions and executioners. --- Hinrichtung. --- Scharfrichter. --- Geschichte 1400-1600. --- Italien. --- Italy. --- History of Italy --- History of civilization --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Bourreaux --- Histoire --- Executions and executioners - Italy - History.

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History of the law --- Criminology. Victimology --- anno 1500-1799 --- Paris --- London --- Capital punishment --- Executions and executioners --- Peine de mort --- Exécutions capitales --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- Peine --- --Peine de mort --- --Bourreau --- --Histoire sociale --- --Histoire des mentalités --- --Supplice --- --France --- --Angleterre --- --History --- Capital punishment. --- Executions and executioners. --- Todesstrafe. --- Geschichte 1500-1800. --- England --- Europa. --- France --- London. --- Paris. --- Exécutions capitales --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Capital punishment - France - Paris - History --- Executions and executioners - France - Paris - History --- Capital punishment - England - London - History --- Executions and executioners - England - London - History --- Bourreau --- Histoire sociale --- Histoire des mentalités --- Supplice --- Angleterre --- Exécutions capitales et exécuteurs --- Paris (France) --- 1500-1800 --- Grande-Bretagne --- Londres (GB) --- Europe de l'Ouest

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English literature --- Executions and executioners --- False imprisonment --- Master and servant --- Murderers --- Young men --- England --- Godwin (william), publiciste et romancier britannique, 1756-1836 --- Caleb williams

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Billy Budd is Herman Melville's most read work after Moby-Dick. Melville wrote the novella during the 5 years before his death, and it was published posthumously in 1924. The essays collected here provide a multifaceted introduction to the work. Areas investigated include nineteenth-century political and social dynamics and the literary response they provoked, as well as the relevance of mythology and the histories of classical world and Judaeo-Christian civilization to Melville's book. Also examined are Melville's later writing, including the late poetry, the text's development, and its ambiguities. This collection will prove an invaluable resource for students of this major American writer.

Sea stories, American --- Executions and executioners in literature. --- Impressment in literature. --- Sailors in literature. --- Seamen in literature --- History and criticism. --- Melville, Herman, --- Melville, Herman --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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« Digne de mourir, comme inutile au monde » : c'est en ces termes que les archives ont conservé la trace de la condamnation à mort d'un valet déclaré coupable de vol, à Paris, en 1391. Cette sentence glacée conforte-t-elle la vision d'un Moyen Âge sanguinaire où la peine capitale aurait été fréquente ? Révèle-t-elle la puissance d'un roi qui affirme ainsi sa domination sur ses sujets, ou la dérive de l'Église qui ne considère plus que, selon l'enseignement de saint Augustin, le criminel peut être racheté ?Condamner à mort au Moyen Âge n'est pas un acte plus anodin qu'aujourd'hui, et si, en ces siècles de construction de la justice, la condamnation est un outil d'affirmation du pouvoir royal, ce n'est pas par sa nature coercitive ou arbitraire, mais par l'encadrement des juges et la pratique de la grâce. C'est là l'autre pan d'un Moyen Âge rénové que Claude Gauvard révèle depuis plusieurs décennies, avec cette volonté d'approcher au plus près, par un examen minutieux et clairvoyant de sources inédites, la cohérence d'une société médiévale qui nous apparaît à la fois étrangère et fondatrice

Peine de mort --- Capital punishment --- Grâce (droit) --- Pardon --- Justice --- Executions and executioners --- Civilization, Medieval --- History --- Peine --- --Peine de mort --- --Moyen âge, --- France --- --History --- Capital punishment - Europe - History --- Executions and executioners - Europe - History --- Moyen âge, 476-1492 --- History of the law --- History of France --- anno 1200-1299 --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1400-1499 --- Grâce (droit)