medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto),
Making Martyrs: (Self-) Fashioning on the Gallows in Renaissance Italy
(I didn't get to speak to him: there were far too many other people to be
set straight about their woeful ignorance of anything medieval, and no other
medievalists there to do it). He did have some excellent pictures, though;
the images that were shown were a little like retablos, with sometimes a
central picture surrounded by other portraits, sometimes just a series of
portraits; other examples were triptychs, to wrap around the eyes so that
the condemned would not be distracted by the crowd. There is clearly a late
medieval tradition that flowers into this guild (i.e. lay) involvement in
preparing the condemned for their deaths, and it was Europe-wide.
His email would seem to be [log in to unmask]
A.
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Margaret Jean
Sent: 31 July 2008 16:16
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Subject: Re: [M-R] proto-guillotine
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Who gave the paper? Do you have the speaker's email? "Miniature icons'
sound like
the kind of thing I am looking for,
Meg
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From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious
culture on behalf of Anthony John Lappin
Sent: Thu 31.7.2008 09:57
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Subject: Re: [M-R] proto-guillotine
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I heard a paper last month at the Renaissance Society's biennual bash (in
Dublin this year); these miniture guillotines are surprisingly common come
the sixteenth century: the blade is hit down with a hammer, thereby ensuring
a clean cut (which swinging a sword could not). The paper went on to point
out how the guild members who were in charge of comforting (?) the condemned
would hold their miniture icons (depicting usually saints who were martyred,
such as perhaps A & S) in front of the prostrate criminal so that, while he
or she tried to look at the images of the saints, their head was kept in
position thus allowing the blade to cut properly. Not quite as clean as a
garotte, but pretty effective, and no doubt more bloodily satisfying.
A.
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