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Pain, Penance, and Protest - Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval England (Hardcover)
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Pain, Penance, and Protest - Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval England (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Legal History
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In medieval England, a defendant who refused to plead to a criminal
indictment was sentenced to pressing with weights as a coercive
measure. Using peine forte et dure ('strong and hard punishment')
as a lens through which to analyse the law and its relationship
with Christianity, Butler asks: where do we draw the line between
punishment and penance? And, how can pain function as a vehicle for
redemption within the common law? Adopting a multidisciplinary
approach, this book embraces both law and literature. When Christ
is on trial before Herod, he refused to plead, his silence
signalling denial of the court's authority. England's discontented
subjects, from hungry peasant to even King Charles I himself, stood
mute before the courts in protest. Bringing together penance, pain
and protest, Butler breaks down the mythology surrounding peine
forte et dure and examines how it functioned within the medieval
criminal justice system.
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