1st Edition
The Death Penalty in Late-Medieval Catalonia Evidence and Significations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Precedent times: The Early-Medieval Justice Before Major Crimes
Chapter Three: Sovereignty and merum imperium
Chapter Four: The Symbology of the Gallows: Jurisdiction and Terror
Chapter Five: The Death Penalty in the ‘plenitudo potestatis’
Chapter Six: The Death Penalty in the Non-Royal Jurisdictions
Chapter Seven: The Death Penalty in the Legislation and Municipal Capitality
Chapter Eight: The Death Penalty in Ordinary Justice
Chapter Nine: The Death Sentences
Chapter Ten: The Application of the Death Penalty: The Ceremony of Execution
Chapter Eleven: The Application of the Death Penalty: The Display of the Body
Chapter Twelve: The Application of the Death Penalty: Punishment by Fire
Chapter Thirteen: More Fire: The Inquisition and the Death Penalty
Chapter Fourteen: The Death Penalty and Otherness: Jews and Muslims Before the Death Penalty
Chapter Fifteen: The Death Penalty in the Mind
Chapter Sixteen: The Death Penalty in the Paths to Consolidate Power and Social Cohesion
Chapter Seventeen: The Death Penalty at the End of the Middle Ages in the Tense Catalonia
Chapter Eighteen: Conclusions
Appendix
Index
Biography
Flocel Sabaté is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lleida, Spain and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina. He is director of the journal Imago Temporis Medium Aevum and president of the Association of the Historians of the Crown of Aragon. He has served as a guest professor in universities and research centres as Concepción, ENS (Lyon), JSPS (Tokyo), Lisboa, Mexico, Paris-1, Poitiers, and Yale.
