The Death Penalty in Late-Medieval Catalonia

The death penalty was unusual in medieval Europe until the twelfth century. From that moment on, it became a key instrument of rule in European society. This book utilises previously unpublished archival sources to present a unique study on the death penalty in late Medieval Europe.

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Flocel Sabaté is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lleida, Spain and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina. He is director of the journal Imago Temporis Medium Aevum and president of the Association of the Historians of the Crown of Aragon. He has served as a guest professor in universities and research centres as Concepción, ENS (Lyon), JSPS (Tokyo), Lisboa, Mexico, Paris-1, Poitiers, and Yale.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Precedent times: The Early-Medieval Justice Before Major Crimes

Chapter Three: Sovereignty and merum imperium

Chapter Four: The Symbology of the Gallows: Jurisdiction and Terror

Chapter Five: The Death Penalty in the 'plenitudo potestatis'

Chapter Six: The Death Penalty in the Non-Royal Jurisdictions

Chapter Seven: The Death Penalty in the Legislation and Municipal Capitality

Chapter Eight: The Death Penalty in Ordinary Justice

Chapter Nine: The Death Sentences

Chapter Ten: The Application of the Death Penalty: The Ceremony of Execution

Chapter Eleven: The Application of the Death Penalty: The Display of the Body

Chapter Twelve: The Application of the Death Penalty: Punishment by Fire

Chapter Thirteen: More Fire: The Inquisition and the Death Penalty

Chapter Fourteen: The Death Penalty and Otherness: Jews and Muslims Before the Death Penalty

Chapter Fifteen: The Death Penalty in the Mind

Chapter Sixteen: The Death Penalty in the Paths to Consolidate Power and Social Cohesion

Chapter Seventeen: The Death Penalty at the End of the Middle Ages in the Tense Catalonia

Chapter Eighteen: Conclusions

Appendix

Index