Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987

by Richard J. Evans

The state has no greater power over its own citizens than that of killing them. This book examines the use of that supreme sanction in Germany, from the seventeenth century to the present.

Richard Evans analyses the system of traditional' capital punishments set out in German law, and the ritual practices and cultural readings associated with them by the time of the early modern period. He shows how this system was challenged by Enlightenment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198219687
• ISBN13: 9780198219682
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 1048 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"