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Abstract. At the turn of the fifteenth century, with the introduction of mandatory confession by a Catholic priest in all cases of capital punishment, a common penal ritual developed with decidedly religious overtones. Part public shaming, part ritual expulsion, and part Passion Play, executions in France were very much the product of France's ...
Mercier described a tradition of public singing about executed criminals that was already centuries old. The complainte ('lament'), a medieval song form traditionally associated with mourning over a loved or revered person, had by this time become inextricably linked with the repentant words of the
5 mar 2020 · The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the growing field of medievalism in music by bringing together international scholars to explore a wide variety of past and present genres in which medievalism is present.
25 sie 1985 · The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music. From the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century, this Companion covers all the key aspects of medieval music.
The chapter reveals how ballads expressed these ideas, and looks at ballads involving particularly shameful methods of execution and post-mortem punishments. It closes with the reforms of public execution which tried to create more socially levelling forms of punishments.
explore the execution ritual in England within the context in which it first appeared in the late Middle Ages. The mutilations visited upon the condemned's body have led many
phonic practices and song traditions during the Middle Ages. It explores song from across Europe, in Latin and vernacular languages (precursors to modern Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish); and polyphony from early improvised organum t.
