Penal Practice and Culture, 1500–1900: Punishing the English

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Plates and Tables......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 9
List of Abbreviations......Page 11
Introduction: Punishing the English......Page 12
1 Shame and Pain: Themes and Variations in Tudor Punishments......Page 47
2 Dead Men Talking: Truth, Texts and the Scaffold in Early Modern England......Page 74
3 Bodies and Souls in Norwich: Punishing Petty Crime, 1540–1700......Page 96
4 Punishing Pardon: Some Thoughts on the Origins of Penal Transportation......Page 132
5 Public Punishment and the Manx Ecclesiastical Courts during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries......Page 149
6 Sanctifying the Robe: Punitive Violence and the English Press, 1650–1700......Page 168
7 The Grotian Moment: Natural Penal Rights and Republicanism......Page 194
8 The Problem of Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England......Page 221
9 Streets of Shame? The Crowd and Public Punishments in London, 1700–1820......Page 243
10 Peel, Pardon and Punishment: The Recorder’s Report Revisited......Page 269
11 ‘I Could Hang Anything You can Bring Before Me’: England’s Willing Executioners in 1883......Page 296
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