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In both exile and execution, society must be complicit; people must be willing to ostracize their neighbors or watch their execution, participating in the spectacle that reifies the power of the state. This collection investigates the relationship between the exiled and the landscape, physical or psychological, into which they are (dis)placed in conversation with accounts of execution, constructed by the authorities or invented to criticize the whole system. The essays cover a broad range of material including early Irish penitential literature, French courtly epics, English legendary histories, Spanish textual evidence of executions, and legal treatises governing both exile and execution in the late Middle Ages and early modern period. Contributors are Gillian Adler, Gila Aloni, Kim Bergqvist, Karen Casey Casebier, Westley Follett, Radosław Kotecki, Mireille J. Pardon, Ben Parsons, Bojana Radovanović, Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez, Susan Small, and Larissa Tracy.

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Author:   Larissa Tracy ,  Gila Aloni
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   29
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004729988

ISBN 10:   9004729984
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   09 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Publisher’s Note Notes on Contributors Introduction: By Choice or by Force: Performing Final Justice through Exile and Execution  Gila Aloni and Larissa Tracy 1 “He Shall Die unto the World with Perpetual Exile”: the Penitential Aspect of Insular peregrinatio  Westley Follett 2 Exile and Excommunication in the Trope of Severance from the “Body of the Church” in Ninth-Century Greek and Latin Texts  Bojana Radovanović 3 Lapidabatur a populo: Stoning as Collective Execution and Exile in Early Medieval Iberia (Fifth–Twelfth Centuries)  Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez  4 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 Casebier  5 The Time of Exile: Historical Distance and Ethical Perspective in Dante’s Commedia and Christine de Pizan’s Le Livre de la Cité des Dames  Gillian Adler  6 A Re-examination of Constance’s Exile—Geoffrey Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale and Constance’s Return Home  Gila Aloni 7 “There the Earl Had Their Heads Cut Off”: Executions and Political Murders in Medieval Scandinavia  Kim Bergqvist 8 To Kill, Banish, or Save?: Performing End-Game Punishment and the Ruler’s Authority in Piast Poland  Radosław Kotecki 9 Nostalgia in Medieval English Narratives of Outlaws, Exiles, and Execution  Larissa Tracy 10 Non-human Execution, Objectification, and the Rise of Bodily Punishment in Late Medieval Flanders  Mireille J. Pardon 11 No Face behind the Mask: Hangmen in Medieval and Early Modern English Culture  Ben Parsons 12 Portraits of a Poisoner: Interpreting the End of the Marquise de Brinvilliers  Susan Small Select Bibliography Index

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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).

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