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Introduction: Justice
revenge or reconciliation?
Thou shalt not kill
A starting point: Cesare Beccaria
The law of forgiveness, the reality of vengeance
The murderer's confession
The earthly city, the right to kill, and the ecclesiastical power to intercede
Bodies and souls: conflicts and power plays
Confessions and communion for the condemned: a rift between church and state
Buried with donkeys: the fate of the body
A special burial place
The criminals' crusade
"I received his head into my hands"
Factional conflict and mob justice in the late Middle Ages
"Holy justice": the turning point of the fifteenth century
The service
Political crimes
Rome, a capital
Reasoning on death row: the birth and development of the arts of comforting
A charity of nobles and the powerful: the new social composition of the companies
The voices of the condemned
Compassionate cruelty: Michel de Montaigne and Catena
The fate of the body
Public anatomy
Art and spectacle at the service of justice
Capital punishment as a rite of passage
The arrival of the Jesuits: confession and the science of cases
Laboratories of uniformity: theoretical cases and real people
Devotions for executed souls: precepts and folklore
Dying without trembling: the Carlo Sala case and the end of the Milanese confraternity
Comforting of the condemned in Catholic Europe
"...y piddiendo a Dios misericordialo matan": the Jesuits and the export of comforting around the world
The German world, the Reformation, and the new image of the executioner
Printing and scaffold stories: models compared
The slow epilogue of comforting in nineteenth-century Italy.
revenge or reconciliation?
Thou shalt not kill
A starting point: Cesare Beccaria
The law of forgiveness, the reality of vengeance
The murderer's confession
The earthly city, the right to kill, and the ecclesiastical power to intercede
Bodies and souls: conflicts and power plays
Confessions and communion for the condemned: a rift between church and state
Buried with donkeys: the fate of the body
A special burial place
The criminals' crusade
"I received his head into my hands"
Factional conflict and mob justice in the late Middle Ages
"Holy justice": the turning point of the fifteenth century
The service
Political crimes
Rome, a capital
Reasoning on death row: the birth and development of the arts of comforting
A charity of nobles and the powerful: the new social composition of the companies
The voices of the condemned
Compassionate cruelty: Michel de Montaigne and Catena
The fate of the body
Public anatomy
Art and spectacle at the service of justice
Capital punishment as a rite of passage
The arrival of the Jesuits: confession and the science of cases
Laboratories of uniformity: theoretical cases and real people
Devotions for executed souls: precepts and folklore
Dying without trembling: the Carlo Sala case and the end of the Milanese confraternity
Comforting of the condemned in Catholic Europe
"...y piddiendo a Dios misericordialo matan": the Jesuits and the export of comforting around the world
The German world, the Reformation, and the new image of the executioner
Printing and scaffold stories: models compared
The slow epilogue of comforting in nineteenth-century Italy.