The Art of Executing Well: Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1931112878 ISBN 13 : 9781931112871

Editeur : Truman State University Press, 2008

Synopsis

In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peacefulat least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and images that they used, together with first-person accounts and ballads describing particular executions. Leading scholars expand on these accounts explaining aspects of the theater, psychology, and politics of execution.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Nicholas Terpstra, professor of history at the University of Toronto, is a historian of early modern social history in Italy whose work has focused on the intersection of religion and politics, and particularly confraternities, charitable institutions, and the networks of care available to marginal populations. He has written many articles and is the author of Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna (2005) and Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna (1995), which was awarded the Howard Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Truman State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1931112878
• ISBN 13: 9781931112871
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Éditeur: Terpstra Nicholas
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• Personne responsable: non disponible