Seeing justice done : the age of spectacular capital punishment in France /

This title presents a history of public executions in France from the medieval spectacle of suffering to the invention of the Revolutionary guillotine, up to the last public execution in 1939. Paul Friedland explores why spectacles of public execution were staged, as well as why thousands of spectat...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Friedland, Paul
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
This title presents a history of public executions in France from the medieval spectacle of suffering to the invention of the Revolutionary guillotine, up to the last public execution in 1939. Paul Friedland explores why spectacles of public execution were staged, as well as why thousands of spectators came to watch them.
Umfang:
1 online resource (345 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786613893673
1-283-58122-1
0-19-161240-5
Schlagworte:
Capital punishment > France > History.
Executions and executioners > France > History.
Guillotine > France > History.
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