Exile and Execution in Medieval and Early Modern Society

Gila Aloni, PhD (1999), Sorbonne, Paris, is affiliated with the Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur (Paris). Former department head at Lynn University (Florida), she publishes on women, power, authority, rape, gender, sexuality, antisemitism, hagiography, and rhetoric in major journals and edited volumes.Larissa Tracy, PhD (2000), Trinity College, Dublin, is Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has published several monographs, edited collections, and articles on medieval punishment in literary, legal, and medical sources, including Treason (Brill, 2019).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsPublisher’s NoteNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: By Choice or by Force: Performing Final Justice through Exile and ExecutionGila Aloni and Larissa Tracy1 “He Shall Die unto the World with Perpetual Exile”: the Penitential Aspect of Insular peregrinatioWestley Follett2 Exile and Excommunication in the Trope of Severance from the “Body of the Church” in Ninth-Century Greek and Latin TextsBojana Radovanović3 Lapidabatur a populo: Stoning as Collective Execution and Exile in Early Medieval Iberia (Fifth–Twelfth Centuries)Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez4 Judicial Authority and Marian Mercy in Gautier de Coinci’s “D’une fame qui fu delivree a Loon dou feu” and La Vie des pères’ “Belle-Mère”Karen Casey Casebier5 The Time of Exile: Historical Distance and Ethical Perspective in Dante’s Commedia and Christine de Pizan’s Le Livre de la Cité des DamesGillian Adler6 A Re-examination of Constance’s Exile—Geoffrey Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale and Constance’s Return HomeGila Aloni7 “There the Earl Had Their Heads Cut Off”: Executions and Political Murders in Medieval ScandinaviaKim Bergqvist8 To Kill, Banish, or Save?: Performing End-Game Punishment and the Ruler’s Authority in Piast PolandRadosław Kotecki9 Nostalgia in Medieval English Narratives of Outlaws, Exiles, and ExecutionLarissa Tracy10 Non-human Execution, Objectification, and the Rise of Bodily Punishment in Late Medieval FlandersMireille J. Pardon11 No Face behind the Mask: Hangmen in Medieval and Early Modern English CultureBen Parsons12 Portraits of a Poisoner: Interpreting the End of the Marquise de BrinvilliersSusan SmallSelect BibliographyIndex