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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: In punishment of open vice: Criminality and authority in sixteenth-century Ulm Abstract: Early modern penality, the application of judicial authority by magistrates, concerned far more than simple law enforcement. More than simple retribution or even deterrence, early modern criminal prosecution also served the political interests of local magistrates. Secular authorities relied heavily upon their traditional role as dispensers of justice in order to legitimize their rule, and ritualized penal practices were at the heart of these efforts. When local authorities executed convicts or forced offenders to submit to humiliating petty punishments they not only punished misbehavior, but also reinforced the social distance between ruler and subject. My research findings suggest that these official penal activities represented a major source of legitimacy and a useful tool in state building. Ulm provides a striping case study of these developments, since the nature of authority in the Ulmer territory changed dramatically during the mid-sixteenth century, a shift in structures of domination reflected in local penal practice and social relations. |
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