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The Criminal Body Between Reconciliation and Exclusion in Late Medieval Flanders

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October 30, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Research Commons, 18th Avenue Library

175 W 18th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210

From pillories to post mortem displays, many punitive rituals in late medieval Flanders centered on the body of the condemned. However, the role that body played was neither simple nor static, and shaming spectacles emphasized both Christian mercy and objectification. Ceremonial elements of reconciliation and exclusion overlapped in these rituals and ultimately reconfigured at the end of the Middle Ages as public punishment eclipsed private peace.

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