HIST 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tyburn, English Law, Charivari
12 Nov 2018
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Week 2 september 19: violence in everyday life, the penal and the festive ritual & social control. Charivara and skimmington rides: def: community policing, rough justice, vigilantism, humiliation ritual: the lords of misrule: boys, apprentices, and men. Ritualistic function of torture: good over evil, god over sinners, state over individual (common good) Benefit of the clergy: the neck verse: pslam 51. Tyburn procession: made sense: tyburn tree (1600-1783, men, women, and children, ceremony and ritual, last dying speech , supremacy of god, purging evil, state display of power, benefit of the clergy (the neck verse, deterrence (general and specific) Six degrees of torture: non-captial (public shaming and charivari, whipping, burning, mutilation, capital punishment (merciful death or prolonged death) Non-physical (non-captial: public sanctions, lex talonis, eye for an eye, symbolic shaming rituals, rough justice, community policing. Conclusion: non-capital punishments: theatrical in character, retributive justice (just desserts, pillory used in england until 1837, symbolic.
