Author: Romano AmerioPublisher:
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Languages : it
Pages : 26
Book Description
Attualità della giustizia e attualità della carità
Author: Romano AmerioNotizie Del Giorno
Author: Crime and Forgiveness
Author: Adriano ProsperiPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674659848
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
A provocative analysis of how Christianity helped legitimize the death penalty in early modern Europe, then throughout the Christian world, by turning execution into a great cathartic public ritual and the condemned into a Christ-like figure who accepts death to save humanity. The public execution of criminals has been a common practice ever since ancient times. In this wide-ranging investigation of the death penalty in Europe from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, noted Italian historian Adriano Prosperi identifies a crucial period when legal concepts of vengeance and justice merged with Christian beliefs in repentance and forgiveness. Crime and Forgiveness begins with late antiquity but comes into sharp focus in fourteenth-century Italy, with the work of the Confraternities of Mercy, which offered Christian comfort to the condemned and were for centuries responsible for burying the dead. Under the brotherhoods’ influence, the ritual of public execution became Christianized, and the doomed person became a symbol of the fallen human condition. Because the time of death was known, this “ideal” sinner could be comforted and prepared for the next life through confession and repentance. In return, the community bearing witness to the execution offered forgiveness and a Christian burial. No longer facing eternal condemnation, the criminal in turn publicly forgave the executioner, and the death provided a moral lesson to the community. Over time, as the practice of Christian comfort spread across Europe, it offered political authorities an opportunity to legitimize the death penalty and encode into law the right to kill and exact vengeance. But the contradictions created by Christianity’s central role in executions did not dissipate, and squaring the emotions and values surrounding state-sanctioned executions was not simple, then or now.
Author: Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338504958X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
News on the Rialto
Author: International Journal of Economic and Social History
Author: Editoria Italiana Online
Author: Nicolai RubinsteinPublisher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN: 9788884981462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Rivista internazionale di scienze sociali
Author: Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century
Author: Christopher F. BlackPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521531139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Confraternities were - and are - religious brotherhoods for lay people to promote their religious life in common. Though designed to prepare for the afterlife, they were fully involved in the social, political and cultural life of the community and could affect all men and women, as members or as the recipients of charity. Confraternities organised a great range of devotional, cultural and indeed artistic activities in addition to other functions such as the provision of dowries and the escort of condemned men to the scaffold. Other works have studied the local activities of specific confraternities, but this is the first to attempt a broad survey of such organisations across the breadth of early modern Italy. Christopher Black demonstrates clearly the extent, diversity and influence of confraternal behaviour, and shows how such brotherhoods adapted to the religious and social crises of the sixteenth century - thus illuminating current debates about Catholic Reform, the Counter-Reformation, poverty, philanthropy and social control.
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