God's Hat and the Highwayman's Shoes
A Gestural and Sartorial History of Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century English Trial and Execution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5298000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Mckenzie (0000-0002-9613-6126, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 231-258 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4107 • E-ISSN: 2292-8502 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cjh.47.2.231 |
| OpenAlex | W70753498 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay examines a wide range of print sources in order to flesh out and to explicate those visual elements of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century trial and execution so central to understanding the ways in which authority could be contested, either passively or actively. Defiant courtroom and gallows sartorial gestures are situated both in the context of broader early modern beliefs regarding social hierarchy and legitimate authority and the burgeoning recent scholarship on the carnivalesque, weapons of the weak and the performative turn. The degree to which these counter-gestures constitute agency remains an open question; however, the ways in which such challenges were framed and expressed not only sheds light on larger legitimating social ideals but suggests a gradual but significant shift over the course of the long eighteenth century from a vertical to a more horizontal construction of authority
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Art · Carnivalesque · Context (archaeology · Gesture · Linguistics · Performative utterance · Political science · Scholarship · Situated · Social science · Sociology · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2020 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |