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Pain, Penance, and Protest de Sara M. Butler

Pain, Penance, and Protest

Autor Sara M. Butler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2024
In medieval England, a defendant who refused to plead to a criminal indictment was sentenced to peine forte et dure – pressing with weights. Using this punishment as a lens, this book blurs the lines between law, religion, and literature to understand how it functioned within the medieval criminal justice system.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009065726
ISBN-10: 1009065726
Pagini: 490
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. Peine Forte et Dure: the medieval practice; 2. Standing mute in the courts of medieval England; 3. Due process and consent to jury trial; 4. Peine as Barbarity? putting the practice in context; 5. Why stand mute?; 6. Standing mute as Imitatio Christi; 7. Rejecting the jury, rejecting the common law, rejecting the king; Conclusion; Works cited; Index.

Recenzii

'Butler's book is a drastic revision of the prevalent obsolete narratives of the birth and development of English law. Butler shows that peine forte et dure was neither a barbaric, irrational penalty, nor prevalent, nor English, nor secular. Embedding legal practices in the intellectual and religious climate of the time, this book is a path-breaking, thought-provoking study.' Esther Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
'This is an important and richly rewarding book. Sara M. Butler triumphantly rescues peine forte et dure from its position as an awkward footnote to the history of the jury to the centre of an investigation into the meaning and purpose of the medieval English criminal trial and its consequences. Silence, in Butler's erudite and wide-ranging analysis, becomes exceptionally eloquent.' Richard W. Ireland, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Aberystwyth University
'The accused stands mute in medieval court, ready to undergo torment rather than plead. What can explain this scene? In this engrossing study, Sara M. Butler takes us beyond the confines of legal history, exploring forgotten worlds of religious and cultural meaning.' James Q. Whitman, Yale Law School