English Execution Narrative, 12001700

Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population at large. She argues that what began as a show of retribution and revenge became a ceremonial portrayal of redemption as the political, religious and cultural landscape of England evolved.

List of contents

Introduction: Setting up the Scaffold in Late Medieval and Early Modern England; Chapter 1 The Body in Space: Describing the Distribution of Dismembered Traitors in Late Medieval England; Chapter 2 The Case of the Missing Blood: Silence and the Semiotics of Judicial Violence; Chapter 3 From Augustine to Aquinas: Death, Time and the Body on the Scaffold; Chapter 4 Dressed for Dying: Contested Visions, Clothes and the Construction of Identity on the Scaffold in Early Modern England; Chapter 5 The Last Words of that ‘Cunning Coiner’ Henry Cuffe: Revisiting the Seventeenth-Century Execution Narrative;

About the author

Katherine Royer

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Royer, Royer Katherine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781138664753
• ISBN: 978-1-138-66475-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: "The Body, Gender and Culture"
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, CE period up to c 1500, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval