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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Public execution"”.
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Conformity, Dissent, and the Death of Henry Barrow, 1570-1593
… circumstances leading up to and surrounding the executions of London Separatist leaders Henry Barrow and John Greenwood on 6 April, 1593. Occurring after a lengthy prison term punctuated by official examinations conducted by authorities, the executions took place only after the men had been twice …
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Faith, fatherland and the politics of exile: the Irish press in mid-Victorian Britain
… that there was now, potentially, a large reading public. It was a public which was defined to a great extent by two ideas, nationality and religion-in the parlance of the time, faith and fatherland. These two elements crucially shaped the responses of both the migrants and of the wider English …
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The Changing Nature of Punishment: From Theology to Reform Ideology and Gallows to Penitentiaries, New England, 1674-1837
Criminal justice reforms of the early American Republic stand as an often examined area of research, but one source of explaining these changes is often neglected. By analyzing New England execution sermons preached from 1674 to 1825 several theological and ideological changes can be demonstrated …
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'Morbid Exhilarations': Dying Words in Early Modern English Drama
… murder, revenge and suicide. Chapter One, on public execution, focuses on scaffold speeches delivered prior to simulated beheadings on the stage. The second chapter examines the genre of the murder play and the pattern of the victim’s displaced last words. Chapter Three explores the creative …
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Representations of Crime, Justice, and Punishment in the Popular Press: A Study of the Illustrated Police News, 1864-1938
… has traditionally been dismissed as a marginal publication. The style, content, and popularity of The Illustrated Police News challenges the view that the cultural imagination of Victorian Britain was narrowly defined by the ideal of respectability, or that by the late nineteenth and early …
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The <i>Imaginaire</i> of Capital Punishment in England, France, and Italy, 1250-1350
What was it like to attend a public execution during the Middle Ages in Europe? This thesis addresses this question by exploring five facets of the imaginaire of capital punishment between 1250 and 1350, in France, Italy, and England. This dissertation aims to demonstrate that capital punishment …
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Power and Punishment: Architecture and Violence in the Italian Renaissance
… one of power, violence, justice, and execution—each regularly on display in the main piazzas of Italian cities. Violent threats to those in power demanded swift punishment that often resulted in the public execution of the offender. The public space of the piazza is understood as a …
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Revenge and Its Implications: Literati Discourse of Justice in Late Qing and Modern Chinese Fiction
… The merciless warlord rule is to blame for the public execution; but its psychological impact prompts the youth to assert their moral responsibility through assassination. I conclude my dissertation with Cao Yu's: 1910-96) <italic>Yuanye</italic>: The Wilderness, 1937). The literature of …