Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
- 1 When Compensation Costs an Arm and a Leg
- 2 Beginnings and Legitimation of Punishment in Early Anglo-Saxon Legislation From the Seventh to the Ninth Century
- 3 Genital Mutilation in Medieval Germanic Law
- 4 ‘Sick-Maintenance’ and Earlier English Law
- 5 Incarceration as Judicial Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
- 6 Earthly Justice and Spiritual Consequences: Judging and Punishing in the Old English Consolation of Philosophy
- 7 Osteological Evidence of Corporal and Capital Punishment in Later Anglo-Saxon England
- 8 Mutilation and Spectacle in Anglo-Saxon Legislation
- 9 The ‘Worcester’ Historians and Eadric Streona’s Execution
- 10 Capital Punishment and the Anglo-Saxon Judicial Apparatus: A Maximum View?
- Index
- Anglo-Saxon Studies
List of Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
- 1 When Compensation Costs an Arm and a Leg
- 2 Beginnings and Legitimation of Punishment in Early Anglo-Saxon Legislation From the Seventh to the Ninth Century
- 3 Genital Mutilation in Medieval Germanic Law
- 4 ‘Sick-Maintenance’ and Earlier English Law
- 5 Incarceration as Judicial Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
- 6 Earthly Justice and Spiritual Consequences: Judging and Punishing in the Old English Consolation of Philosophy
- 7 Osteological Evidence of Corporal and Capital Punishment in Later Anglo-Saxon England
- 8 Mutilation and Spectacle in Anglo-Saxon Legislation
- 9 The ‘Worcester’ Historians and Eadric Streona’s Execution
- 10 Capital Punishment and the Anglo-Saxon Judicial Apparatus: A Maximum View?
- Index
- Anglo-Saxon Studies
Summary
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- Chapter
- Information
- Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014