Exile and Execution in Medieval and Early Modern Society /

Exile and Execution in Medieval and Early Modern Society /

In both exile and execution, society must be complicit; people must be willing to ostracize their neighbors or watch their execution, participating in the spectacle that reifies the power of the state. This collection investigates the relationship between the exiled and the landscape, physical or ps...

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Other Authors: Aloni, Gila (Editor), Tracy, Larissa (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Explorations in Medieval Culture ; 29.
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Economic History.
History.
Medieval History.
Social History.

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Call Number: D410

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Publisher's Note
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: By Choice or by Force: Performing Final Justice through Exile and Execution
  • Gila Aloni and Larissa Tracy
  • 1 "He Shall Die unto the World with Perpetual Exile": the Penitential Aspect of Insular peregrinatio Westley Follett
  • 2 Exile and Excommunication in the Trope of Severance from the "Body of the Church" in Ninth-Century Greek and Latin Texts
  • Bojana Radovanović
  • 3 Lapidabatur a populo : Stoning as Collective Execution and Exile in Early Medieval Iberia (Fifth-Twelfth Centuries)
  • Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez
  • 4 Judicial Authority and Marian Mercy in Gautier de Coinci's "D'une fame qui fu delivree a Loon dou feu" and La Vie des pères ' "Belle-Mère"
  • Karen Casey Casebier
  • 5 The Time of Exile: Historical Distance and Ethical Perspective in Dante's Commedia and Christine de Pizan's Le Livre de la Cité des Dames Gillian Adler
  • 6 A Re-examination of Constance's Exile-Geoffrey Chaucer's Man of Law ' s Tale and Constance's Return Home
  • Gila Aloni
  • 7 "There the Earl Had Their Heads Cut Off": Executions and Political Murders in Medieval Scandinavia
  • Kim Bergqvist
  • 8 To Kill, Banish, or Save?: Performing End-Game Punishment and the Ruler's Authority in Piast Poland
  • Radosław Kotecki
  • 9 Nostalgia in Medieval English Narratives of Outlaws, Exiles, and Execution
  • Larissa Tracy
  • 10 Non-human Execution, Objectification, and the Rise of Bodily Punishment in Late Medieval Flanders
  • Mireille J. Pardon
  • 11 No Face behind the Mask: Hangmen in Medieval and Early Modern English Culture
  • Ben Parsons
  • 12 Portraits of a Poisoner: Interpreting the End of the Marquise de Brinvilliers
  • Susan Small
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.