The garrottewas another name for hanging in the Middle Ages during the middle Ages lawmakers were always looking for ways to improve punishment techniques and in the 18th century, the idea of slow strangulation was an idea that became popular amongst lawmakers. ...
In 1461, Hendrik van Groningen, who had been charged with a variety of offences including domestic violence and adultery, was given a warning that if he continued his behaviour, he would be put in the 'Wiltfang' in addition to being sub- jected to another, undefined, punishment which ...
where saints are reported as repairing the damage of unjustly-inflicted mutilations. Strikingly, texts from this period echo the Byzantine examples in their motifs: tyrannical or misguided rule inflicting a terrible punishment, and the hagiographer explicitly criticizing that decision. Here, though, the...
And more important in order to keep in mind the truly significance of these literary works: all these transgressor behaviours are in fact so bad deeds that will remind without any kind of punishment in the future and they configure together moral topics represented per negationem in satirical ...
Human punishment, Abelard replies, may be justified where there is no guilt; a woman who has overlain her infant unawares is punished to make others more careful. 亚伯拉德回答说,在没有罪过的地方,人类的惩罚可能是正当的;一个无意中压死她婴儿的女人被惩罚是为了让其他人更加小心。
mentor to some of the greatest men in history, and a formidable force that reshaped the laws regarding women’s rights to allow women the right to divorce, the right to own property, and made rape a capital punishment. All in all, a pretty amazing trajectory from a back alley brothel to...
Wunderli shows that although adultery cases ‘flooded the court’ in the late fifteenth century, conviction rates were low. Conviction entailed the enforcement of punishment, penance and/or compensation or child support, but even if few were convicted, adultery prosecutions served a social purpose....
In 1461, Hendrik van Groningen, who had been charged with a variety of offences including domestic violence and adultery, was given a warning that if he continued his behaviour, he would be put in the 'Wiltfang' in addition to being sub- jected to another, undefined, punishment which ...