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ISBN/UID: 9780674659841
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Belknap Press
Publication date: 14 July 2020
Description
A provocative analysis of how Christianity helped legitimize the death penalty in early modern Europe, then throughout the Christian world, by turning execution into a great cathartic public ritual and the condemned into a Christ-like figure who a...
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640 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674659841
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Belknap Press
Publication date: 14 July 2020
Description
A provocative analysis of how Christianity helped legitimize the death penalty in early modern Europe, then throughout the Christian world, by turning execution into a great cathartic public ritual and the condemned into a Christ-like figure who a...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings