7. Confession and Communion for the Condemned: A Rift between Church and State

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface to the English-Language Edition vii
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: Justice—Revenge or Reconciliation? 1
6. 1. Thou Shalt Not Kill 6
7. 2. A Starting Point: Cesare Beccaria 13
8. 3. The Law of Forgiveness, the Reality of Vengeance 21
9. 4. The Murderer’s Confession 26
10. 5. The Earthly City, the Right to Kill, and the Ecclesiastical Power to Intercede 32
11. 6. Bodies and Souls: Conflicts and Power Plays 42
12. 7. Confession and Communion for the Condemned: A Rift between Church and State 50
13. 8. Buried with Donkeys 58
14. 9. A Special Burial Place 71
15. 10. The Criminals’ Crusade 76
16. 11. “I Received His Head into My Hands” 87
17. 12. Factional Conflict and Mob Justice in the Late Middle Ages 96
18. 13. “Holy Justice”: The Turning Point of the Fifteenth Century 107
19. 14. The Service 134
20. 15. Political Crimes 146
21. 16. Rome, a Capital 168
22. 17. Reasoning on Death Row: The Birth and Development of the Arts of Comforting 189
23. 18. A Charity of Nobles and the Powerful: The New Social Composition of the Companies 239
24. 19. The Voices of the Condemned 255
25. 20. Compassionate Cruelty: Michel de Montaigne and Catena 300
26. 21. The Fate of the Body 309
27. 22. Public Anatomy 318
28. 23. Art and Spectacle at the Service of Justice 324
29. 24. Capital Punishment as a Rite of Passage 340
30. 25. The Arrival of the Jesuits: Confession and the Science of Cases 350
31. 26. Laboratories of Uniformity: Theoretical Cases and Real People 364
32. 27. Devotions for Executed Souls: Precepts and Folklore 391
33. 28. Dying without Trembling: The Carlo Sala Case and the End of the Milanese Confraternity 405
34. 29. Comforting of the Condemned in Catholic Europe 410
35. 30. “. . . y piddiendo a Dios misericordia lo matan”: The Jesuits and the Export of Comforting around the World 438
36. 31. The German World, the Reformation, and the New Image of the Executioner 449
37. 32. Printing and Scaffold Stories: Models Compared 468
38. 33. The Slow Epilogue of Comforting in Nineteenth-Century Italy 501
39. Afterword 519
40. Notes 523
41. Index 609
42. Illustrations 625