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Serious crimes like murder, treason (betraying one's lord or king), or witchcraft could lead to execution. Methods of execution included hanging, which was the most common, and beheading, which was sometimes reserved for nobles.
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.
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.
7 maj 2021 · This article explores the pan-European phenomenon of the execution ballad, songs that told the news of true crimes and their punishment by public execution.
However, while execution ballads remained steady in popularity across time, we do see changes in the nineteenth century—in printing technology and format, and in the coverage of criminal investigations that result in songs before the execution—changes that are discussed in more detail in Chapter 8.
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. Divided into three main sections, the book first of all discusses repertory, styles and techniques – the key areas of traditional music
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
