Exile and Execution in Medieval and Early Modern Society / edited by Gila Aloni and Larissa Tracy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aloni, Gila, editor.

Tracy, Larissa, editor.

Series:

Explorations in Medieval Culture ; 29.

Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Explorations in Medieval Culture ; 29

Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

History.

Middle Ages.

Social history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In both exile and execution, society must be complicit; people must be willing to ostracize their neighbors or watch their execution, participating in the spectacle that reifies the power of the state. This collection investigates the relationship between the exiled and the landscape, physical or psychological, into which they are (dis)placed in conversation with accounts of execution, constructed by the authorities or invented to criticize the whole system. The essays cover a broad range of material including early Irish penitential literature, French courtly epics, English legendary histories, Spanish textual evidence of executions, and legal treatises governing both exile and execution in the late Middle Ages and early modern period. Contributors are Gillian Adler, Gila Aloni, Kim Bergqvist, Karen Casey Casebier, Westley Follet, Radosław Kotecki, Mireille J. Pardon, Ben Parsons, Bojana Radovanović, Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez, Susan Small, and Larissa Tracy.

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Publisher’s Note

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: By Choice or by Force: Performing Final Justice through Exile and Execution

Gila Aloni and Larissa Tracy

1 “He Shall Die unto the World with Perpetual Exile”: the Penitential Aspect of Insular peregrinatio Westley Follett

2 Exile and Excommunication in the Trope of Severance from the “Body of the Church” in Ninth-Century Greek and Latin Texts

Bojana Radovanović

3 Lapidabatur a populo : Stoning as Collective Execution and Exile in Early Medieval Iberia (Fifth–Twelfth Centuries)

Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez

4 Judicial Authority and Marian Mercy in Gautier de Coinci’s “D’une fame qui fu delivree a Loon dou feu” and La Vie des pères ’ “Belle-Mère”

Karen Casey Casebier

5 The Time of Exile: Historical Distance and Ethical Perspective in Dante’s Commedia and Christine de Pizan’s Le Livre de la Cité des Dames Gillian Adler

6 A Re-examination of Constance’s Exile—Geoffrey Chaucer’s Man of Law ’ s Tale and Constance’s Return Home

Gila Aloni

7 “There the Earl Had Their Heads Cut Off”: Executions and Political Murders in Medieval Scandinavia

Kim Bergqvist

8 To Kill, Banish, or Save?: Performing End-Game Punishment and the Ruler’s Authority in Piast Poland

Radosław Kotecki

9 Nostalgia in Medieval English Narratives of Outlaws, Exiles, and Execution

Larissa Tracy

10 Non-human Execution, Objectification, and the Rise of Bodily Punishment in Late Medieval Flanders

Mireille J. Pardon

11 No Face behind the Mask: Hangmen in Medieval and Early Modern English Culture

Ben Parsons

12 Portraits of a Poisoner: Interpreting the End of the Marquise de Brinvilliers

Susan Small

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Tracy, Larissa Exile and Execution in Medieval and Early Modern Society

ISBN:

9789004742598

OCLC:

1553142013

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004742598 DOI