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Penal Practice and Culture, 1500–1900
Punishing the English
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The English were punished in many different ways in the five centuries after 1500. This collection stretches from whipping to the gallows, and from the first houses of correction to penitentiaries. Punishment provides a striking way to examine the development of culture and society through time. These studies of penal practice explore violence, cruelty and shame, while offering challenging new perspectives on the timing of the decline of public punishment, the rise of imprisonment and reforms of the capital code.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Plates and Tables
- Notes on the Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Punishing the English
- 1 Shame and Pain: Themes and Variations in Tudor Punishments
- 2 Dead Men Talking: Truth, Texts and the Scaffold in Early Modern England
- 3 Bodies and Souls in Norwich: Punishing Petty Crime, 1540–1700
- 4 Punishing Pardon: Some Thoughts on the Origins of Penal Transportation
- 5 Public Punishment and the Manx Ecclesiastical Courts during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- 6 Sanctifying the Robe: Punitive Violence and the English Press, 1650–1700
- 7 The Grotian Moment: Natural Penal Rights and Republicanism
- 8 The Problem of Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England
- 9 Streets of Shame? The Crowd and Public Punishments in London, 1700–1820
- 10 Peel, Pardon and Punishment: The Recorder’s Report Revisited
- 11 ‘I Could Hang Anything You can Bring Before Me’: England’s Willing Executioners in 1883
- Index