Crime And Punishment In Early Modern Germany

Author : Maria R. Boes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317157991

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Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany by Maria R. Boes Pdf

Frankfurt am Main, in common with other imperial German cities, enjoyed a large degree of legal autonomy during the early modern period, and produced a unique and rich body of criminal archives. In particular, Frankfurt’s Strafenbuch, which records all criminal sentences between 1562 and 1696, provides a fascinating insight into contemporary penal trends. Drawing on this and other rich resources, Dr. Boes reveals shifting and fluid attitudes towards crime and punishment and how these were conditioned by issues of gender, class, and social standing within the city’s establishment. She attributes a significant role in this process to the steady proliferation of municipal advocates, jurists trained in Roman Law, who wielded growing legal and penal prerogatives. Over the course of the book, it is demonstrated how the courts took an increasingly hard line with select groups of people accused of criminal behavior, and the open manner with which advocates exercised cultural, religious, racial, gender, and sexual-orientation repressions. Parallel with this, however, is identified a trend of marked leniency towards soldiers who enjoyed an increasingly privileged place within the judicial system. In light of this discrepancy between the treatment of civilians and soldiers, the advocates’ actions highlight the emergence and spread of a distinct military judicial culture and Frankfurt’s city council’s contribution to the quasi-militarization of a civilian court. By highlighting the polarized and changing ways the courts dealt with civilian and military criminals, a fuller picture is presented not just of Frankfurt’s sentencing and penal practices, but of broader attitudes within early modern Germany to issues of social position and cultural identity.

Author : Ulinka Rublack
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198208860

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The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany by Ulinka Rublack Pdf

A study of the crimes of women in early modern Germany, this text draws on court records to examine the lives of shrewd cutpurses, quarrelling artisan wives, and soldiers' concubines.

Author : Joy Wiltenburg
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813933030

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Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany by Joy Wiltenburg Pdf

With the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse. Sensational crime reports, often featuring multiple murders within families, proliferated as authors probed horrific events for religious meaning. Coinciding with heightened witch panics and economic crisis, the spike in crime fears revealed a continuum between fears of the occult and more mundane dangers. In Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany, Joy Wiltenburg explores the beginnings of crime sensationalism from the early sixteenth century into the seventeenth century and beyond. Comparing the depictions of crime in popular publications with those in archival records, legal discourse, and imaginative literature, Wiltenburg highlights key social anxieties and analyzes how crime texts worked to shape public perceptions and mentalities. Reports regularly featured familial destruction, flawed economic relations, and the apocalyptic thinking of Protestant clergy. Wiltenburg examines how such literature expressed and shaped cultural attitudes while at the same time reinforcing governmental authority. She also shows how the emotional inflections of crime stories influenced the growth of early modern public discourse, so often conceived in terms of rational exchange of ideas.

Author : Professor Maria R Boes
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409474432

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Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany by Professor Maria R Boes Pdf

Frankfurt am Main, in common with other imperial German cities, enjoyed a large degree of legal autonomy during the early modern period, and produced a unique and rich body of criminal archives. In particular, Frankfurt’s Strafenbuch, which records all criminal sentences between 1562 and 1696, provides a fascinating insight into contemporary penal trends. Drawing on this and other rich resources, Dr. Boes reveals shifting and fluid attitudes towards crime and punishment and how these were conditioned by issues of gender, class, and social standing within the city’s establishment. She attributes a significant role in this process to the steady proliferation of municipal advocates, jurists trained in Roman Law, who wielded growing legal and penal prerogatives. Over the course of the book, it is demonstrated how the courts took an increasingly hard line with select groups of people accused of criminal behavior, and the open manner with which advocates exercised cultural, religious, racial, gender, and sexual-orientation repressions. Parallel with this, however, is identified a trend of marked leniency towards soldiers who enjoyed an increasingly privileged place within the judicial system. In light of this discrepancy between the treatment of civilians and soldiers, the advocates’ actions highlight the emergence and spread of a distinct military judicial culture and Frankfurt’s city council’s contribution to the quasi-militarization of a civilian court. By highlighting the polarized and changing ways the courts dealt with civilian and military criminals, a fuller picture is presented not just of Frankfurt’s sentencing and penal practices, but of broader attitudes within early modern Germany to issues of social position and cultural identity.

Author : Maria R. Boes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Corrections
ISBN : 1315574780

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Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany by Maria R. Boes Pdf

Author : Jeannette Kamp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004388444

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Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main by Jeannette Kamp Pdf

This book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in recorded criminality and the way that they were shaped by the local context. Women played a prominent role in recorded crime in this period, and could even make up half of all defendants in specific European cities. At the same time, there were also large regional differences. Women’s crime patterns in Frankfurt were both similar and different to those of other cities. Informal control within the household played a significant role and influenced the prosecution patterns of authorities. This impacted men and women differently, and created clear distinctions within the system between settled locals and unsettled migrants.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004416055

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A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Augsburg by Anonim Pdf

A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Augsburg distills the extraordinary range and creativity of recent scholarship on one of the most significant cities of the Holy Roman Empire into a handbook format.

Author : Richard F. Wetzell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782382478

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Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany by Richard F. Wetzell Pdf

The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, to the early postwar years. These topics include case studies of criminal trials, the development of juvenile justice, and the efforts to reform the penal code, criminal procedure, and the prison system. The collection also reveals that the history of criminal justice has much to contribute to other areas of historical inquiry: it explores the changing relationship of criminal justice to psychiatry and social welfare, analyzes representations of crime and criminal justice in the media and literature, and uses the lens of criminal justice to illuminate German social history, gender history, and the history of sexuality.

Author : Jason Philip Coy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004161740

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Strangers and Misfits by Jason Philip Coy Pdf

This book examines the role of banishment, a prevalent form of punishment largely neglected by scholars, in sixteenth-century Ulm, using the towna (TM)s experience to uncover how early modern magistrates used expulsion to regulate and reorder society.

Author : Herman Roodenburg,Pieter Spierenburg,Clive Emsley,Eric Arthur Johnson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814209684

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Social Control in Europe by Herman Roodenburg,Pieter Spierenburg,Clive Emsley,Eric Arthur Johnson Pdf

This first volume of a two-volume collection of essays provides a comprehensive examination of the idea of social control in the history of Europe. The uniqueness of these volumes lies in two main areas. First, the contributors compare methods of social control on many levels, from police to shaming, church to guilds. Second, they look at these formal and informal institutions as two-way processes. Unlike many studies of social control in the past, the scholars here examine how individuals and groups that are being controlled necessarily participate in and shape the manner in which they are regulated. Hardly passive victims of discipline and control, these folks instead claimed agency in that process, accepting and resisting -- and thus molding -- the controls under which they functioned. The essays in this volume focus on the interplay of ecclesiastical institutions and the emerging states, examining discipline from a bottom-up perspective. Book jacket.

Author : Richard van Dülmen
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0745606164

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Theatre of Horror by Richard van Dülmen Pdf

Author : Margaret Brannan Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317221500

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Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany by Margaret Brannan Lewis Pdf

This book is the first work to look at the full range of three centuries of the early modern period in regards to infanticide and abortion, a period in which both practices were regarded equally as criminal acts. Faced with dire consequences if they were found pregnant or if they bore illegitimate children, many unmarried women were left with little choice. Some of these unfortunate women turned to infanticide and abortion as the way out of their difficult situation. This book explores the legal, social, cultural, and religious causes of infanticide and abortion in the early modern period, as well as the societal reactions to them. It examines how perceptions of these actions taken by desperate women changed over three hundred years and as early modern society became obsessed with a supposed plague of murderous mothers, resulting in heated debates, elaborate public executions, and a media frenzy. Finally, this book explores how the prosecution of infanticide and abortion eventually helped lead to major social and legal reformations during the age of the Enlightenment.

Author : Kathy Stuart
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031252440

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Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany by Kathy Stuart Pdf

Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring to die repentantly at the hands of divinely-instituted government, perpetrators hoped to escape eternal damnation that befell direct suicides. Kathy Stuart shows how this crime emerged as an unintended consequence of aggressive social disciplining campaigns by confessional states. Paradoxically, suicide by proxy exposed the limits of early modern state power, as governments struggled unsuccessfully to suppress the tactic. Some perpetrators committed arson or blasphemy, or confessed to long-past crimes, usually infanticide, or bestiality. Most frequently, however, they murdered young children, believing that their innocent victims would also enter paradise. The crime had cross-confessional appeal, as illustrated in case studies of Lutheran Hamburg and Catholic Vienna.

Author : Nancy Kollmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139577014

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Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia by Nancy Kollmann Pdf

This is a magisterial account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions with informal, flexible practice contributed to the country's social and political stability. She also places Russian developments in the broader context of early modern European state-building strategies of governance and legal practice. She compares Russia's rituals of execution to the 'spectacles of suffering' of contemporary European capital punishment and uncovers the dramatic ways in which even the tsar himself, complying with Moscow's ideologies of legitimacy, bent to the moral economy of the crowd in moments of uprising. Throughout, the book assesses how criminal legal practice used violence strategically, administering horrific punishments in some cases and in others accommodating with local communities and popular concepts of justice.

Author : Stephen Cummins,Laura Kounine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134802715

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Cultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe by Stephen Cummins,Laura Kounine Pdf

Disputes, discord and reconciliation were fundamental parts of the fabric of communal living in early modern Europe. This edited volume presents essays on the cultural codes of conflict and its resolution in this period under three broad themes: peacemaking as practice; the nature of mediation and arbitration; and the role of criminal law in conflicts. Through an exploration of conflict and peacemaking, this volume provides innovative accounts of state formation, community and religion in the early modern period.