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Penal Practice and Culture, 1500–1900

Punishing the English

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Simon Devereaux

    1. University of Queensland, Australia

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  2. Paul Griffiths

    1. Iowa State University, North Carolina, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Punishing the English

    • Paul Griffiths
    Pages 1-35

  3. Shame and Pain: Themes and Variations in Tudor Punishments

    • Martin Ingram
    Pages 36-62

  4. Dead Men Talking: Truth, Texts and the Scaffold in Early Modern England

    • Katherine Royer
    Pages 63-84

  5. Bodies and Souls in Norwich: Punishing Petty Crime, 1540–1700

    • Paul Griffiths
    Pages 85-120

  6. Punishing Pardon: Some Thoughts on the Origins of Penal Transportation

    • Cynthia Herrup
    Pages 121-137

  7. Public Punishment and the Manx Ecclesiastical Courts during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

    • J. R. Dickinson, J. A. Sharpe
    Pages 138-156

  8. Sanctifying the Robe: Punitive Violence and the English Press, 1650–1700

    • Philippe Rosenberg
    Pages 157-182

  9. The Grotian Moment: Natural Penal Rights and Republicanism

    • Mark Rigstad
    Pages 183-209

  10. The Problem of Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England

    • Randall McGowen
    Pages 210-231

  11. Streets of Shame? The Crowd and Public Punishments in London, 1700–1820

    • Robert Shoemaker
    Pages 232-257

  12. Peel, Pardon and Punishment: The Recorder’s Report Revisited

    • Simon Devereaux
    Pages 258-284

  13. ‘I Could Hang Anything You Can Bring Before Me’: England’s Willing Executioners in 1883

    • Greg T. Smith
    Pages 285-308

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 309-319
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About this book

The English were punished in many different ways in the five centuries after 1500. This collection stretches from whipping to the gallows, and from the first houses of correction to penitentiaries. Punishment provides a striking way to examine the development of culture and society through time. These studies of penal practice explore violence, cruelty and shame, while offering challenging new perspectives on the timing of the decline of public punishment, the rise of imprisonment and reforms of the capital code.

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'[This] volume's coherence and consistently high quality will recommend it to scholars as well as undergraduate students.' - English Historical Review

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Queensland, Australia

    Simon Devereaux

  • Iowa State University, North Carolina, USA

    Paul Griffiths

About the editors

J. R. DICKINSON Researcher, University of York CYNTHIA HERRUP Professor of History and Law, Duke University, Durham MARTIN INGRAM Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford RANDAL MCGOWEN Professor of History, University of Oregon MARK RIGSTAD Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Oakland University, Minnesota PHILIPPE ROSENBERG Lecturer, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey KATHERINE ROYER Assistant Professor of History, California State University Stanislaus J. A. SHARPE Professor of History, University of York R. S. SHOEMAKER Reader in History, University of Sheffield GREG. T. SMITH Assistant Professor of History, University of Manitoba, Canada

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Penal Practice and Culture, 1500–1900

  • Book Subtitle: Punishing the English

  • Editors: Simon Devereaux, Paul Griffiths

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523241

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-99740-6Published: 16 December 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43269-1Published: 16 December 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-52324-1Published: 12 November 2003

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 319

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Cultural History, History of Early Modern Europe, Modern History

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