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This is the first collection of essays to survey punishment in England in the four centuries after 1500. Its principal concerns include the punishment of petty crime, the roots of transportation, mercy, changing perceptions of the nature and impact of capital punishment, and the cultural values affecting penal developments. The contributors explore compelling new bodies of evidence to offer fresh perspectives on this area.
The English were punished in many different ways in the five
centuries after 1500. This collection stretches from whipping to
the gallows, and from the first houses of correction to
penitentiaries. Punishment provides a striking way to examine the
development of culture and society through time. These studies of
penal practice explore violence, cruelty and shame, while offering
challenging new perspectives on the timing of the decline of public
punishment, the rise of imprisonment and reforms of the capital
code.
New analysis and interpretation of law and legal institutions in
the "long eighteenth century". Law and legal institutions were of
huge importance in the governance of Georgian society: legislation
expanded the province of administrative authority out of all
proportion, while the reach of the common law and its communal
traditions of governance diminished, at least outside British North
America. But what did the rule of law mean to eighteenth-century
people, and how did it connect with changing experiences of law in
all their bewildering complexity?This question has received much
recent critical attention, but despite widespread agreement about
Law's significance as a key to unlock so much which was central to
contemporary life, as a whole previous scholarship has only offered
a fragmented picture of the Laws in their social meanings and
actions. Through a broader-brush approach, The British and their
Laws in the Eighteenth Century contributes fresh analyses of law in
England andBritish settler colonies, c. 1680-1830; its expert
contributors consider among other matters the issues of
participation, central-local relations, and the maintenance of
common law traditions in the context of increasing legislative
interventions and grants of statutory administrative powers.
Contributors: SIMON DEVEREAUX, MICHAEL LOBBAN, DOUGLAS HAY, JOANNA
INNES, WILFRED PREST, C.W. BROOKS, RANDALL MCGOWEN, DAVID THOMAS
KONIG, BRUCE KERCHER
This book provides the first comprehensive account of execution
practices in England and their extraordinary transformation from
1660 to 1900. Agonizing execution rituals were once common. Male
traitors were hanged, disembowelled while still alive, then
decapitated and quartered. Female traitors were burned alive. And
common criminals slowly choked to death beneath wooden crossbeams
erected at the margins of towns. Some of their bodies were either
left to rot on roadside gibbets or dissected by anatomy
instructors. Two centuries later, only murderers and traitors were
executed – both by hanging – and they died alone, usually
quickly, and behind prison walls. In this major contribution to the
history of crime and punishment in England, Simon Devereaux reveals
how urban growth, and the unique public culture it produced,
challenged and largely displaced those traditional elites who
valued the old 'Bloody Code' as an instrument of their rule.
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