Pain, Penance, and Protest - Butler, Sara M.
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In medieval England, a defendant who refused to plead to a criminal indictment was sentenced to peine forte et dure â pressing with weights. Using this punishment as a lens, this book blurs the lines between law, religion, and literature to understand how it functioned within the medieval criminal justice system.

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In medieval England, a defendant who refused to plead to a criminal indictment was sentenced to peine forte et dure â pressing with weights. Using this punishment as a lens, this book blurs the lines between law, religion, and literature to understand how it functioned within the medieval criminal justice system.
Autorenporträt
Sara M. Butler is the King George III Professor in British History at the Ohio State University. She is the author of three books: The Language of Abuse: Marital Violence in Later Medieval England, Divorce in Medieval England: From One to Two Persons in Law, and Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England.