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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.
A second lengthy piece gives an eyewitness account of the final hours of two patrician Florentines executed for conspiracy against the Medici in 1512. Shorter pieces include poems written by prisoners on the eve of their execution, songs sung by the condemned and their comforters, and popular broadsheets reporting on particular executions.
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.
Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 looks at how and why song was employed across Europe for centuries as a vehicle for broadcasting news about crime and executions, exploring how this performative medium could frame and mediate the message of punishment and repentance.
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.
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.
