Corporal punishment is often seen as a litmus test for a society's degree of civilization. Its licit use purports to separate modernity from premodernity, enlightened from barbaric cultures. As Geltner argues, however, neither did the infliction of bodily pain typify earlier societies nor did i...

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1. Verfasser:	Geltner, Guy 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2020
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Corporal punishment / History Flagellation / History Prügelstrafe Leibesstrafe Kultur Geißelung
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Zusammenfassung:	Corporal punishment is often seen as a litmus test for a society's degree of civilization. Its licit use purports to separate modernity from premodernity, enlightened from barbaric cultures. As Geltner argues, however, neither did the infliction of bodily pain typify earlier societies nor did it vanish from penal theory, policy, or practice. Far from displaying a steady decline that accelerated with the Enlightenment, physical punishment was contested throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, its application expanding and contracting under diverse pressures. Moreover, despite the integration of penal incarceration into criminal justice systems since the nineteenth century, modern nation states and colonial regimes increased rather than limited the use of corporal punishment. Flogging Others thus challenges a common understanding of modernization and Western identity and underscores earlier civilizations' nuanced approaches to punishment, deviance, and the human body. Today as in the past, corporal punishment thrives due to its capacity to define otherness efficiently and unambiguously, either as a measure acting upon a deviant's body or as a practice that epitomizes - in the eyes of external observers - a culture's backwardness
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020) Machine generated contents note: 1. Historical and Anthropological Approaches -- Problems of Definition -- Problems of Interpretation -- 2. Punishing Bodies -- Antiquity -- Later Antiquity: Greece, Rome, and the Sassanian Empire -- Religion and Corporal Punishment -- Judaism -- Islam -- Christianity -- Medieval and Early Modern Europe -- Modernity to the Present
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (112 Seiten)
ISBN:	9789048525942
DOI:	10.1017/9789048525942