Author: James P. GilchristPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dueling
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A brief display of the origin and history of ordeals, trials by battle, courts of chivalry or honour, and the decision of private quarrels by single combat
Author: James P. GilchristPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dueling
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A Protestant Purgatory
Author: Laurie ThronessPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351961993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
How did the penitentiary get its name? Why did the English impose long prison sentences? Did class and economic conflict really lie at the heart of their correctional system? In a groundbreaking study that challenges the assumptions of modern criminal justice scholarship, Laurie Throness answers many questions like these by exposing the deep theological roots of the judicial institutions of eighteenth-century Britain. The book offers a scholarly account of the passage of the Penitentiary Act of 1779, combining meticulous attention to detail with a sweeping theological overview of the century prior to the Act. But it is not just an intellectual history. It tells a fascinating story of a broader religious movement, and the people and beliefs that motivated them to create a new institution. The work is original because it relies so completely on original sources. It is mystical because it mingles heavenly with earthly justice. It is authoritative because of its explanatory power. Its anecdotes and insights, poetry and song, provide intriguing glimpses into another era strangely familiar to our own. Of special interest to social and legal historians, criminologists, and theologians, this work will also appeal to a wider audience of those who are interested in Christianity's impact on Western culture and institutions.
British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record
Author: The British Review, and London Critical Journal
Author: The British Critic
Author: Sports, Pastimes, Arts, Sciences
Author: Pickering & ChattoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review
Author: Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
Author: Erin L. ThompsonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393867684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A leading expert on the past, present, and future of public monuments in America. An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? Which ones should stay up and which should come down? Who should make these decisions, and how? Erin L. Thompson, the country’s leading expert in the tangled aesthetic, legal, political, and social issues involved in such battles, brings much-needed clarity in Smashing Statues. She lays bare the turbulent history of American monuments and its abundant ironies, from the enslaved man who helped make the statue of Freedom that tops the United States Capitol, to the fervent Klansman fired from sculpting the world’s largest Confederate monument—who went on to carve Mount Rushmore. And she explores the surprising motivations behind contemporary flashpoints, including the toppling of a statue of Columbus at the Minnesota State Capitol, the question of who should be represented on the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in Central Park, and the decision by a museum of African American culture to display a Confederate monument removed from a public park. Written with great verve and informed by a keen sense of American history, Smashing Statues gives readers the context they need to consider the fundamental questions for rebuilding not only our public landscape but our nation as a whole: Whose voices must be heard, and whose pain must remain private?
Catalogue of Rare Books
Author: Ellis (Firm)Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn
Author: Lincoln's Inn (London, England). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogues
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description