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Examines literary and legal sources to document thoughts and feelings about capital punishment in the United States over the long nineteenth century.Drawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, Literary Executions examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States over the long nineteenth century. John Cyril Barton creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. He looks to novels, short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction as well as legislative reports, trial transcripts, legal documents, newspaper and journal articles, treatises, and popular books (like The Record of Crimes, A Defence of Capital Punishment, and The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House), all of which were part of the debate over the death penalty.Barton focuses on several canonical figures—James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Theodore Dreiser—and offers new readings of their work in light of the death penalty controversy. Barton also gives close attention to a host of then-popular-but-now-forgotten writers—particularly John Neal, Slidell MacKenzie, William Gilmore Simms, Sylvester Judd, and George Lippard—whose work helped shape or was shaped by the influential anti-gallows movement. Analyzing the tension between sovereignty and social responsibility in a democratic republic, Barton argues that the high stakes of capital punishment dramatize the confrontation between the citizen-subject and sovereign authority in its starkest terms. In bringing together the social and the aesthetic, Barton shows how legal forms informed literary forms and traces the emergence of the modern State in terms of the administration of lawful death.By engaging the politics and poetics of capital punishment, Literary Executions contends that the movement to abolish the death penalty in the United States should be seen as an important part of the context that brought about the flowering of the American Renaissance during the antebellum period and that influenced literature later in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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What is the place of Jews in medieval Christian societies? in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this question was largely confined to Jewish scholars, and the academic debates where inseparable from the upheavels of the lives of contemporary European Jews.

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Der wechselseitige rechtliche und sprachliche Einfluss sächsisch-magdeburgischer Rechtsnormen wird am Beispiel des Sächsischen Weichbildrechts und des Silleiner Stadtrechtsbuchs vorgestellt. Rechts-, forschungs- und sprachgeschichtliche Grundlagen zum Untersuchungsgebiet Tschechien/Slowakei sowie eine detaillierte Analyse des Verhältnisses zwischen der deutschen, tschechischen und slowakischen Rechtssprache zeichnen diesen Band aus. This work demonstrates the reciprocal influences in Saxon-Magdeburg legal norms using the example of the Saxon and Sillein municipal laws. The book stands out for its contribution to the literature on Czech and Slovak studies, exploring fundamental issues in the fields of legal history, linguistic history, and the history of research while offering a detailed analysis of the relationship between the German, Czech, and Slovak legal languages.

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Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Buches sind im Rahmen der Forschung des Lehrstuhls von Uwe Scheffler zum Thema „Kunst und Strafrecht" entstanden. Sie beleuchten die Berührungspunkte zwischen der Freiheit der Kunst und strafrechtlich geschützten Rechtsgütern. Wesentliches Ziel ist es dabei die verfassungsrechtliche Garantie und die Schranken der Kunstfreiheit sowie den Schutz des Kunstwerks gegenüber einfachem Strafrecht zu verdeutlichen. The articles in this volume were written within the scope of the research carried out at Uwe Scheffler’s chair of art and criminal law. They shed light on the points of contact between the freedom of art and interests protected by criminal law. The main goal is to illustrate the constitutional guarantee of artistic freedom but also its limits, and to show how artworks are protected under simple criminal law.

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