Seeing Justice Done

Name: Seeing Justice Done | The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France
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The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France

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Cover
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading and Writing a History of Punishment
The Sow of Falaise: The Making of an Historical Legend
A Distant Mirror? Reading Historical Narratives of the Sow of Falaise
From the Barbarians' Point of View: Narratives of Punishment as Historical Anthropology
I. THE ROOTS OF MODERN PUNISHMENT IN PRE-MODERN EUROPE
1. The Fall and Rise of Rome: Compensation, Atonement, and Deterrence in the Early Middle Ages
Roman Law after the Fall of Rome: Deterrence Decontextualized
The Laws of the Salian Franks: Punishment as Payback
Christian Penance and Atonement
The Renaissance of Roman Legal Studies in Medieval Europe
2. Criminal Intent and Spectacular Punishment: The Infiltration of Roman Legal Theory and Practice into French Customary Law
Intentionality and Customary Law
Lèse-Majesté and Treason in Customary Law
High Justice, Low Justice, and the Spectacularization of Punishment
The Homogenization of Justice
II. EXECUTIONERS AND THE RITUAL OF EXECUTION
3. Extraordinary Beings: The Life and Work of Executioners
A Race of Outcasts
A People Apart: Duties, Privileges, and Restrictions
The End of an Era: The Abolition of Havage
4. The Execution of Justice: The Ritual of Punishment in Medieval and Early Modern France
The First Stage: Display and Shame
The Second Stage: Expulsion and Liminality
The Third Stage: Death as Reintegration or as the Ultimate Exile
Beyond Deterrence: The Execution of Inanimate and Non-Human Bodies
Reconciling the Irreconcilable: Sixteenth-Century Jurists on Customary Practice and Deterrence Theory
III. SPECTATORS AND SPECTACLE
5. From Ritual to Spectacle: The Rise of the Penal Voyeur in Early Modern France
Watching Executions before the Sixteenth Century
Spectacular Novelties
A New Spectacularity: Anatomy Theaters, Executions, and the Diary of Felix Platter
Markers of a Shift in Viewing Habits: L'Estoile's Journals and the Rise of Canards
Executions as Tragic Spectacle: Rosset's Histoires tragiques
6. Executions, Spectator Emotions, and the Naturalization of Sympathy
A Rising Spectacularity
Sentimental Journey: From Stoic Insensitivity to Sensibilité
"Neither shame, nor horror in attending"
The Naturalization of Sympathy: Sensibility as Human Nature
7. A Spectacular Crisis: Watching Executions in the Age of Sensibilité
Penal Spectators and the First Glimmerings of Self-Consciousness
Collision Course: Spectacularity, Sentimentality, and Exemplary Deterrence
The Execution of Damiens: "The most horrible and disgusting punishment that justice has ever dared to imagine"
The 1750s: A Watershed of Sensibilities
In the Wake of Damiens: A "Horror" of the Penal Spectacle
IV. A DEATH PENALTY FOR THE MODERN AGE
8. Theorizing a New Death Penalty: Penal Reform on the Eve of the Revolution
Utopian Penal Reform
The End of Utopia: Montesquieu's L'Esprit des Lois
Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments
Beccaria's Reception and Legacy
The Great (non-)Debate on Capital Punishment from Beccaria to the Penal Code of 1791
9. Legislating the New Death Penalty: The Simple Deprivation of Life
Guillotin's Proposals for Reform
The Naturalization of the Executioner
A New Penal Code?
Debates on Capital Punishment
A Spectacular Death vs. the Simple Deprivation of Life
Killing Humanely
10. Executing the New Death Penalty: The Invisible Spectacle of the Guillotine
The Search for a Humane Killing Machine
Inventing the Guillotine
The Guillotine in Action
Gauging the Guillotine's Popularity
The Industrialization of Capital Punishment?
Epilogue: The Play Over, the Actors (Slowly) Leave the Stage
The Guillotine: A Disappearing Act
Conclusion: Punishment Past and Present
Notes
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