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25 paź 2024 · In this article, we will explore how the gruesome realities of medieval torture devices, medieval execution methods, and medieval public executions became powerful metaphors in art and literature. Through their creative lens, these once-dreaded tools and techniques were transformed into symbols of power, cruelty, and human frailty.
The sample in this article looks at 252 execution ballads, in English, French, German and Italian. Italian street songs about executed criminals do not contain an explicit tune direction, and their unique method of musical guidance will be discussed later.
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.
25 wrz 2024 · Marissa: Though public execution remained into the 20th century, imprisonment became the standard punishment, even for some violent crimes, and methods of execution became increasingly humane. German authorities dismantled the permanent gallows and ravenstones in the late-18th and early-19th centuries.
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
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
