Pain, penance, and protest : peine forte et dure in medieval England / Sara M. Butler, The Ohio State University.
In medieval England, a defendant who refused to plead to a criminal indictment was sentenced to pressing with weights as a coercive measure. Using peine forte et dure ('strong and hard punishment') as a lens through which to analyse the law and its relationship with Christianity, Butler as...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Studies in legal history.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009067065 |
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