1st Edition
Flogging Others Corporal Punishment and Cultural Identity from Antiquity to the Present
By G. Geltner
Copyright 2015
112 Pages
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Amsterdam University Press
Corporal punishment is often seen as a litmus test for a society's degree of civilization. Its licit use purports to separate modernity from premodernity, enlightened from barbaric cultures. As Geltner argues, however, neither did the infliction of bodily pain typify earlier societies nor did it vanish from penal theory, policy, or practice. Far from displaying a steady decline that accelerated... Read more
Introduction, 1. Historical and Anthropological Approaches, 2. Punishing Bodies, Conclusion, Acknowledgements, Notes, Works Cited, Index
Biography
G. Geltner is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam. His main focus is on Western Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries.
