The spectacle of suffering : executions and the evolution of repression : from a preindustrial metropolis to the European experience / Pieter Spierenburg
Published
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984
Machine derived contents note: Preface; 1. The emergence of criminal justice; 2. The actors: executioners and their status; 3. The stagers: the authorities and the dramatisation of executions; 4. The watchers: spectators at the scaffold; 5. The victims: delinquents and their penalties in Republican Amsterdam; 6. The disappearance of public executions; Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Analysis
Western Europe Offenders Public corporal punishment, to 1800
Notes
Includes index
Revision of the author's thesis (University of Amsterdam, 1978) under the title: Judicial violence in the Dutch Republic
Revision of the author's thesis (University of Amsterdam, 1978) under the title: Judicial violence in the Dutch Republic
