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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467248203321

Titolo

Almost eternal : painting on stone and material innovation in early modern Europe / / edited by Piers Baker-Bates, Elena Calvillo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

90-04-36149-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (387 pages)

Collana

Art and material culture in medieval and Renaissance Europe ; ; Volume 10

Disciplina

759.94

Soggetti

Stone painting - Europe

Painting, European - 16th century

Painting, European - 17th century

Diffusion of innovations - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sebastiano del Piombo's invention and its initial influence -- Ars et Natura : the poetics and collecting of paintings on stone -- Other materials, metaphors, and inventions.

Sommario/riassunto

Almost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe gathers together an international group of ten scholars, who offer a novel account of the phenomenon of oil painting on stone surfaces in Northern and Southern Europe. This technique was devised in Rome by Sebastiano del Piombo in the early sixteenth century and was practiced until the late seventeenth century. This phenomenon has attracted little attention previously: the volume therefore makes a significant and timely contribution to the field in the light of recent studies of materiality and the rise of technical Art History. Contributors: Nadia Baadj, Piers Baker-Bates, Elena Calvillo, Ana Gonsalez Mozo, Anna Kim, Helen Langdon, Johanna Beate Lohff, Judith Mann, Christopher Nygren, Suzanne Wegmann, and Giulia Martina Weston.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299809603321

Autore

Walliss John

Titolo

The Bloody Code in England and Wales, 1760-1830 / / by John Walliss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319745619

3319745611

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 pages)

Collana

World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence, , 2730-9649

Disciplina

364.941

Soggetti

Great Britain - History

Social history

Crime - Sociological aspects

Europe - History - 1492-

History of Britain and Ireland

Social History

Crime and Society

History of Early Modern Europe

History of Modern Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part One: England -- Chapter 2: The Criminal justice process in Georgian England.- Chapter 3: 'The lottery of justice': The Bloody Code in England, 1760-1830 -- Part Two: Wales -- Chapter 4: Crime and Justice in the Courts of Great Sessions: The Brecon Circuit 1760-1830.- Chapter 5: A land of White Gloves? Life and death in Georgian Wales.- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a comparative quantitative analysis of the administration of justice across four English and three Welsh counties between 1760 and 1830. Drawing on a dataset of over 22,000 indictments, the book explores the similarities and differences between how the so-called Bloody Code was administered between, on the one hand, England and Wales, and, on the other, individual English and Welsh counties. Following the introduction, the book is structured in two main sections



that trace the criminal justice process in England and Wales respectively. The first chapter in each section examines the pattern of indictments in the respective counties, and explores the crimes for which men and women were indicted, the verdicts handed down, and the sentences passed. The analysis then turns to the patterns of sentences of death, executions and pardons for those capitally convicted of serious crimes against the person and forms of property offences. .