Crime & Punishment in Europe

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Examines the development of European crime and punishment from 1200-1840. Focuses in detail on the social role of legal proceedings, judicial torture, physical punishment, and public execution in European society. As part of the course, students reenact a series of trials from the Spanish Inquisition. Concludes by studying the shift toward punishment by prison in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the lens of Philadelphia's own, Eastern State Penitentiary.