Capital and corporal punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jay Paul Gates and Nicole Marafioti.
• Editors: Gates, Jay Paul; Marafioti, Nicole, 1978-
• Contents: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England -- 1. When Compensation Costs an Arm and a Leg -- 2. Beginnings and Legitimation of Punishment in Early Anglo-Saxon Legislation From the Seventh to the Ninth Century -- 3. Genital Mutilation in Medieval Germanic Law -- 4. 'Sick-Maintenance' and Earlier English Law -- 5. Incarceration as Judicial Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. 6. Earthly Justice and Spiritual Consequences: Judging and Punishing in the Old English Consolation of Philosophy -- 7. Osteological Evidence of Corporal and Capital Punishment in Later Anglo-Saxon England -- 8. Mutilation and Spectacle in Anglo-Saxon Legislation -- 9. The 'Worcester' Historians and Eadric Streona's Execution -- 10. Capital Punishment and the Anglo-Saxon Judicial Apparatus: A Maximum View? -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 208 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 364.660941; Capital punishment -- Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066; Corporal punishment -- Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology; HISTORY -- Medieval; Capital punishment; Corporal punishment; Great Britain; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782042983; 1782042989
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.