Seeing Justice Done
The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France
A history of public executions in France from the medieval spectacle of suffering to the invention of the Revolutionary guillotine, up to the last public execution in 1939. Paul Friedland explores why spectacles of public execution were staged, as well as why thousands of spectators came to watch them.
Specificaties
ISBN/EAN | 9780198715993 |
Auteur | Paul (Cornell University) Friedland |
Uitgever | Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. |
Taal | Engels |
Uitvoering | Paperback / gebrocheerd |
Pagina's | 346 |
Lengte | 234.0 mm |
Breedte | 156.0 mm |