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Societies throughout history have adopted many and varied methods of meting out the ultimate sanction of capital punishment to their more unruly members.Although a number of countries across the globe still execute their own citizens, on occasion in public, the modern world in general views execution with distaste, and public execution doubly so. Public Executions documents the phenomenon of state-sanctioned killing from the ancient world to modern times, and in doing so, shows that although we regard the ancient practices with horror, they would have been equally bemused by our modern scruples, and would have regarded execution behind closed doors as little short of murder.Public Executions is a gruesomely enthralling account of public executions down through the ages and from around the world.

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Après avoir lu une dernière fois l'arrêt de mort, le greffier s'approche de la croix de Saint-André où le condamné est attaché. Il lui demande si de dernières déclarations restent à faire puis, en réponse à son silence, fait signe au bourreau que le temps est venu. La barre de fer s'abat, le corps est brisé. L'échafaud et le feu qui consumera le corps désarticulé offrent à la foule le spectacle de la justice. L'exécution publique à l'époque moderne a souvent été décrite par l'historiographie comme un théâtre de peur, de violence et d'obéissance selon Michel Foucault et les historiens qui s'en sont inspirés, elle réparait sur le corps du condamné la souveraineté divine et humaine blessée par le crime. Pourtant, les rituels judiciaires du châtiment s'inscrivent clans une réflexion plus large, plus complexe sur le droit et la morale : ils constituèrent un dialogue constant, voire une négociation, entre le justiciable et l'homme de loi. L'objet de ce livre est de reconstituer ce dialogue. Au carrefour des paroles, des écritures et du spectacle, Pascal Bastien entend expliquer les rituels de l'exécution dans le Paris du XVIIIe siècle bourreaux, condamnés, greffiers et confesseurs partagèrent et échangèrent, avec la foule et les magistrats, un " savoir-dire " du droit qu'on aurait tort de réduire trop simplement à la potence ou au bûcher. Hors des tribunaux, où la procédure était tenue secrète jusqu'au droit révolutionnaire, l'exécution publique fut un moyen de communiquer le droit par une mise en mots et en images du verdict. Elle fut aussi un instrument dynamique et efficace du lien social entre l'État royal et ses sujets-, de fait, la peine devint au XVIIIe siècle l'espace et l'instant d'un nouveau jugement, celui des justiciables à l'égard de leur justice. Plus que le châtiment à proprement parler, il s'agit ici de reconstituer et d'analyser les différentes articulations du spectacle de la peine à Paris au XVIIIe siècle. De la circulation des arrêts imprimés à la marche du bourreau dans la ville, et des mots du greffier lancés à la foule à ceux du confesseur consolant le condamné, l'exécution publique se révèle comme un événement capable, malgré ses contradictions internes, d'assurer une profonde cohérence à l'imaginaire judiciaire qu'elle participait à créer. Ce fut dans les rues de la ville que le Parisien attendait, espérait, consentait ou contestait la justice du roi.

Executions and executioners --- Capital punishment --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Exécutions capitales --- Peine de mort --- Justice pénale --- History --- Histoire --- Administration --- Indoor games --- Games --- History. --- Exécutions capitales --- Justice pénale --- Paris (France) --- 18th century --- Punishment --- France --- Play --- History and criticism --- Executions and executioners - France - Paris - History - 18th century. --- Capital punishment - France - Paris - History - 18th century. --- Indoor games - France - History. --- Games - France - History. --- Exécutions capitales et exécuteurs --- Rituel judiciaire --- 18e siècle --- Jeu --- Aspect social --- 16e-18e siècles

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Why did some offenses in the South end in mob lynchings while similar crimes led to legal executions? Why did still other cases have nonlethal outcomes? In this well-researched and timely book, Margaret Vandiver explores the complex relationship between these two forms of lethal punishment, challenging the assumption that executions consistently grew out of-and replaced-lynchings. Vandiver begins by examining the incidence of these practices in three culturally and geographically distinct southern regions. In rural northwest Tennessee, lynchings outnumbered legal executions by eleven to one and many African Americans were lynched for racial caste offenses rather than for actual crimes. In contrast, in Shelby County, which included the growing city of Memphis, more men were legally executed than lynched. Marion County, Florida, demonstrated a firmly entrenched tradition of lynching for sexual assault that ended in the early 1930's with three legal death sentences in quick succession. With a critical eye to issues of location, circumstance, history, and race, Vandiver considers the ways that legal and extralegal processes imitated, influenced, and differed from each other. A series of case studies demonstrates a parallel between mock trials that were held by lynch mobs and legal trials that were rushed through the courts and followed by quick executions. Tying her research to contemporary debates over the death penalty, Vandiver argues that modern death sentences, like lynchings of the past, continue to be influenced by factors of race and place, and sentencing is comparably erratic.

Executions and executioners --- Lynching --- Criminal law --- Criminal procedure --- Capital punishment --- Execution sites --- Homicide --- History. --- Southern States --- American South --- American Southeast --- Dixie (U.S. : Region) --- Former Confederate States --- South, The --- Southeast (U.S.) --- Southeast United States --- Southeastern States --- Southern United States --- United States, Southern --- Southern States. --- Anti-lynching movements

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The standard survey of drama research leads off this volume. Ten essays follow dealing with love poetry, laughter and manhood, a new dating of 'Sir Gawein & the Green Knight', German eschatological theatre, the end of the persecution of witches, late medieval executioners and much more.

Civilization, Medieval. --- Literature, Medieval. --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- History --- Christ's healing. --- German eschatological theater. --- Jehan de Saintré. --- Middle Spanish period. --- Sir Gawein and the Green Knight. --- drama research. --- drama. --- fine arts. --- historiography. --- laughter. --- liberal arts. --- literary genres. --- love poetry. --- manhood. --- medicine. --- medieval executioners. --- persecution of witches. --- poetry. --- prose. --- religion. --- romance. --- Culture --- Fifteenth century. --- Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism.