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

Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France
ISBN-10
0199592691
ISBN-13
9780199592692
Category
History
Pages
345
Language
English
Published
2012-06-14
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Paul Friedland

Description

A history of public executions in France from the medieval spectacle of suffering to the invention of the Revolutionary guillotine, up to the last public execution in 1939. Paul Friedland explores why spectacles of public execution were staged, as well as why thousands of spectators came to watch them.

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