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Anglo-Saxon authorities often punished lawbreakers with harsh corporal penalties, such as execution, mutilation and imprisonment. Despite their severity, however, these penalties were not arbitrary exercises of power. Rather, they were informed by nuanced philosophies of punishment which sought to resolve conflict, keep the peace and enforce Christian morality. The ten essays in this volume engage legal, literary, historical, and archaeological evidence to investigate the role of punishment in Anglo-Saxon society, looking at the shift from feud to top-down punishment; how punishment was used to enhance royal standing; and the intersection of secular punishment and penitential practice.
Sommario
Introduction: Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England - Nicole Marafioti and Jay Paul Gates
When Compensation Costs an Arm and a Leg - Valerie Allen
Beginnings and Legitimation of Punishment in Early Anglo-Saxon Legislation From the Seventh to the Ninth Century - Daniela Fruscione
Genital Mutilation in Medieval Germanic Law - Lisi Oliver
'Sick-Maintenance' and Earlier English Law - Stefan Jurasinski
Incarceration as Judicial Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England - Daniel Thomas
Earthly Justice and Spiritual Consequences: Judging and Punishing in the Old English
Consolation of Philosophy - Nicole Marafioti
Osteological Evidence of Corporal and Capital Punishment in Later Anglo-Saxon England - Jo Buckberry
Mutilation and Spectacle in Anglo-Saxon Legislation - Daniel O'Gorman
The 'Worcester' Historians and Eadric
Streona's Execution - Jay Paul Gates
Capital Punishment and the Anglo-Saxon Judicial Apparatus: A Maximum View? - Andrew Rabin
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Jay Paul Gates, Nicole Marafioti
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Essays examining how punishment operated in England, from c.600 to the Norman Conquest.
