- Preface to the English-Language Edition
- Preface
- Introduction: Justice—Revenge or Reconciliation?
- 1. Thou Shalt Not Kill
- 2. A Starting Point: Cesare Beccaria
- 3. The Law of Forgiveness, the Reality of Vengeance
- 4. The Murderer’s Confession
- 5. The Earthly City, the Right to Kill, and the Ecclesiastical Power to Intercede
- 6. Bodies and Souls: Conflicts and Power Plays
- 7. Confession and Communion for the Condemned: A Rift between Church and State
- 8. Buried with Donkeys
- 9. A Special Burial Place
- 10. The Criminals’ Crusade
- 11. “I Received His Head into My Hands”
- 12. Factional Conflict and Mob Justice in the Late Middle Ages
- 13. “Holy Justice”: The Turning Point of the Fifteenth Century
- 14. The Service
- 15. Political Crimes
- 16. Rome, a Capital
- 17. Reasoning on Death Row: The Birth and Development of the Arts of Comforting
- 18. A Charity of Nobles and the Powerful: The New Social Composition of the Companies
- 19. The Voices of the Condemned
- 20. Compassionate Cruelty: Michel de Montaigne and Catena
- 21. The Fate of the Body
- 22. Public Anatomy
- 23. Art and Spectacle at the Service of Justice
- 24. Capital Punishment as a Rite of Passage
- 25. The Arrival of the Jesuits: Confession and the Science of Cases
- 26. Laboratories of Uniformity: Theoretical Cases and Real People
- 27. Devotions for Executed Souls: Precepts and Folklore
- 28. Dying without Trembling: The Carlo Sala Case and the End of the Milanese Confraternity
- 29. Comforting of the Condemned in Catholic Europe
- 30. “…y piddiendo a Dios misericordia lo matan”: The Jesuits and the Export of Comforting around the World
- 31. The German World, the Reformation, and the New Image of the Executioner
- 32. Printing and Scaffold Stories: Models Compared
- 33. The Slow Epilogue of Comforting in Nineteenth-Century Italy
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
Crime and Forgiveness
Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe
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Publication Date: 07/14/2020
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