The Death Penalty in Late-Medieval Catalonia: Evidence and Significations

ISBN-13: 9780367188634 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 386 str.

Flocel Sabate

Opis

The death penalty was unusual in medieval Europe until the twelfth century. From that moment on, it became a key instrument of rule in European society. This book utilises previously unpublished archival sources to present a unique study on the death penalty in late Medieval Europe.

O autorze

Flocel Sabaté is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lleida, Spain and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina. He is director of the journal Imago Temporis Medium Aevum and president of the Association of the Historians of the Crown of Aragon. He has served as a guest professor in universities and research centres as Concepción, ENS (Lyon), JSPS (Tokyo), Lisboa, Mexico, Paris-1, Poitiers, and Yale.