By Magnus Hörnqvist.
Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist states, and in the post-1968 Western world.
Routledge (2021) 181p.
By Alice Morse Earle.
A brief and somewhat sensational review of typical punishments of the middle ages with illustrations of each..
Chicago. Stone (1896) 173p.
By Albert Hartshorne.
‘And humanity would recoil to-day with abhorrence from the actual gibbet, sensation itself would be stunned at the punishment for High Treason, the drawing and quartering of patriots, whose names may shine in history " through their tears like wrinkled pebbles in a glassy stream." It will be borne in mind that the gallows and the gibbet are the most ancient instruments of capital punishment in the world.’ NY. Cassell Publishing (1893) 160p.
