HIST 3130 Study Guide - Final Guide: Thief Takers, Richard Sennett, Social Economy
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A. , last dying speeches: religion, ideology and public execution in. To examine certain facets of this ceremonial and to attempt to place the seventeenth-century execution in a broader social and cultural context. (147) Public execution was not a simple display of brutality intended to cow or entertain some animalistic mob. Public executions were carried out in a of ceremony and ritual, and the reactions which they aimed to spectators were evidently more complicated than mere terror. context excite among (146-147) The popular press and it"s fascination with crime: The gallows literature illustrates the way in which the civil and religious authorities designed the execution spectacle to articulate a particular set of values, inculcate a certain behavioural model and bolster a social order as threatened. Only a small number of people might witness an pamphlet account was designed to reach a wider audience. perceived execution, but the (148)