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The art of executing well : rituals of execution in Renaissance Italy /
This volume focuses on a feature of executions that was unique to Renaissance Italy: the presence in prisons and on scaffolds of laymen, gathered in confraternities called "conforterie," who worked with prisoners to prepare them spiritually and psychologically for execution. The book inclu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kirksville, Missouri :
Truman State University Press,
[2008]
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| Colección: | Early modern studies series ;
1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The other side of the scaffold / Nicholas Terpstra
- Scaffold and stage : comforting rituals and dramatic traditions in late medieval and Renaissance Italy / Kathleen Falvey
- Comforting with song : using Laude to assist condemned prisoners / Pamela Gravestock
- Mirror of a condemned : the religious poems of Andrea Viarani / Alfredo Troiano
- In your face : paintings for the condemned in Renaissance Italy / Massimo Ferretti
- Consolation or condemnation : the debates on withholding sacraments from prisoners / Adriano Prosperi
- Theory into practice : executions, comforting, and comforters in Renaissance Italy / Nicholas Terpstra
- The Bologna Comforters' manual. Comforting by the books : editorial notes on the Bologna Comforters' manual / Nicholas Terpstra. Book 1 / trans. Sheila Das. Book 2 / trans. Sheila Das. Book 3, Laude and prayers / trans. Sheila Das and Nicholas Terpstra. Book 4, Authorities / Nicholas Terpstra
- Luca della Robbia's narrative on the execution of Pietro Paolo Boscoli and Agostino Capponi / Alison Knowles Frazier
- Public execution in popular verse : the poems of Giulio Cesare Croce / Meryl Bailey.