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Corinne HÉLIN, « Nouvelle acquisition : Crime and forgiveness : christianizing execution in medieval Europe », Bibliothèque Georges Lefebvre – Institut de recherches historiques du Septentrion, ID : 10.58079/lyjz
PROSPERI AdrianoCrime and forgiveness : christianizing execution in medieval Europe Cambridge : The Belknap Pres of Harvard University Press, 2020, XIII-621 p.ISBN 978-0-674-65984-1 EUR 1202 Résumé éditeur : A provocative analysis of how Christianity helped legitimize the death penalty in early modern Europe, then throughout the Christian world, by turning execution into a great cathartic public ritual and the condemned into a Christ-like figure who accepts death to save humanity. The public...