Guilt and Punishment in the Fourteenth Century

Sponsoring Organization(s)

14th Century Society

Organizer Name

Claire Fanger

Organizer Affiliation

Rice Univ.

Presider Name

Phyllis Pobst

Presider Affiliation

Arkansas State Univ.

Paper Title 1

The Favorite's Demon: Black Magic and the Punishment of Alice Perrers

Presenter 1 Name

John L. Leland

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Salem International Univ.

Paper Title 2

The Authority to Bind and Loose: Guilt Assessment in Fourteenth-Century England

Presenter 2 Name

Elizabeth Papp Kamali

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Paper Title 3

Expenses Related to Corporal Punishment in France

Presenter 3 Name

William Chester Jordan

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Start Date

10-5-2013 10:00 AM

Session Location

Valley III 303

Description

The 14th century saw a general movement towards a more public conception of both crime and sin. While punishment moved from being conceived as recompense of individual wrong towards being conceived as recompense of wrong to an entire community, penance too could take more public forms and be seen to remit more than personal sin. This session provides a forum for studies of penance and punishment that connect the body and the body politic.

James Byrne