Book contents
- Pain, Penance, and Protest
- Studies in Legal History
- Pain, Penance, and Protest
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Statutes
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Peine Forte et Dure: The Medieval Practice
- 2 Standing Mute in the Courts of Medieval England
- 3 Due Process and Consent to Jury Trial
- 4 Peine Forte et Dure as Barbarity? Putting the Practice in Context
- 5 Why Stand Mute?
- 6 Standing Mute as Imitatio Christi
- 7 Rejecting the Jury, Rejecting the Common Law, Rejecting the King
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Book contents
- Pain, Penance, and Protest
- Studies in Legal History
- Pain, Penance, and Protest
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Statutes
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Peine Forte et Dure: The Medieval Practice
- 2 Standing Mute in the Courts of Medieval England
- 3 Due Process and Consent to Jury Trial
- 4 Peine Forte et Dure as Barbarity? Putting the Practice in Context
- 5 Why Stand Mute?
- 6 Standing Mute as Imitatio Christi
- 7 Rejecting the Jury, Rejecting the Common Law, Rejecting the King
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
During much of October, 2017, newspapers and Twitter feeds across the United Kingdom were abuzz with news of the mini-series Gunpowder’s graphic depiction of death by peine forte et dure.2 Gunpowder is a Game of Thrones-esque version of the Guy Fawkes story, in which a group of Catholics plotted to blow up parliament, removing the already paranoid King James I and VI, his heir, as well as the Houses of Lords and Commons all in one fell swoop, a plot that thankfully went horribly awry.
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- Pain, Penance, and ProtestPeine Forte et Dure in Medieval England, pp. 398 - 415Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021