IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1301: Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England, II: Historical Considerations
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Jay Paul Gates, Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York |
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Moderator/Chair: | Jay Paul Gates, Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York |
Paper 1301-a | 'Pour encourager les autres': Mutilation and Display in II Æthelstan (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Law |
Paper 1301-b | Various Bases of Legitimation for the Increment of Penalty and Physical Punishment in Anglo-Saxon Legislation (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Law |
Paper 1301-c | Evading Corporal Punishment: Spiritual Dangers and Earthly Consequences (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Old English |
Abstract | Treatments of capital and corporal punishment appear in various contexts during the Anglo-Saxon period. In addition to the Old English law codes that prescribe death and mutilation for criminal offenders, physical penalties figure prominently in literary texts, theological writings, |