Revival: Crime and Punishment in Germany (1929)

Theodor Hampe, Malcolm Letts

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Law
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351253628
• Subtopic: Criminal Law
• Index: Law

The book includes the results of the research conducted by the author on the Nuremberg Malefactors' Books, more specifically of crime, punishment and execution as reflected in the official and private records of Nuremberg during the centuries when it was a free Imperial city.

INDEX

Abortionists, 86

Achtbücher, contents of, 26, 38

Adders as charms, 113f.

Baths at Nuremberg, 20, 84

Beautiful Fountain, 53, 60

Beer, adulteration of, 94

Beheim, Paulus, 51

Blackmail, 80

Blasphemy, 119

Blinding, 57, 145

Blood of criminals as cures, 67, 108

Branding, 101, 102

Burial alive, 46, 134

Burial of criminals, 137

Burning alive, 19, 59, 62, 94, 99

Carolina, Charles V’s criminal code, 39

Cat-burglar, story of a, 53

Charms, 105f., 117

Child-murder, 67f.

Children, offences against, 86

Children, punishment of, 143f.

Coining, 99

Corpse, bleeding in presence of murderer, 65

Corpses sent to anatomy schools, 138

Cut-purses, training of, 45

Deichsler, Paulus, 62

Disputed jurisdiction, case of, 74

Drowning of women, 19, 47 126

Ducking of soldiers, 80

Epperlein of Geilingen, 61, 144

Escapes, 47, 51, 52, 68, 100, 118, 141ff;, 147, 148

Executioners, list of, 130f.; attacks on when unskilful, 135; assault on, 132; see Schmidt, Franz

Fencing schools, 42

Fiddle, carrying the, 60

Fingers cut off, 19, 85, 91, 99

Fire, letters of, 102

Fleischbrücke, 91

Food, adulteration of, 94

Forgery, punishment of, 101

Frank, Paulus, 28

Frauentor, 62

Frenchman, execution of a, 73f

Frommoder, Georg, 36 and passim

Fröschturm, 142

Galleys, punishment of, 60

Gallows, see Rabenstein

Gallows-thieves, 54, 108

Gallows-marriage, case of, 67f

Geuder family, 3...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
• TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
• AUTHOR’S PREFACE
• AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
• I THIEVES OF ALL KINDS
• II VIOLENCE, ROBBERY AND INCENDIARISM, MURDER AND HOMICIDE
• III CONCERNING RIOT, PERJURY AND TREACHERY, DEFAMATION AND BLACKMAIL
• IV OF LEWDNESS
• V FRAUD, DECEPTION, SWINDLING, AND ADULTERATION OF FOOD
• VI OF CARD-SHARPERS, COINERS, AND FORGERS OF DOCUMENTS
• VII OF MAGIC, TREASURE-SEEKERS, WITCHES, EXORCISTS AND BLASPHEMERS
• VIII THE WORLD-AT-LARGE
• IX ESCAPES
• X GALLOWS’ HUMOUR
• CONCLUSION
• I CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT OF BARBARA SCHLÜMPFIN
• II EXECUTION AT BRESLAU OF HEINRICH THEIN WHO HAD COMMITTED 251 MURDERS
• III SOME NAMES OF THIEVES AND ROBBERS FROM THE SECOND HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
• IV NUREMBERG INNS, BEER-SHOPS, AND TAP-ROOMS
• INDEX