Um luxo para um pais pobre? : a pena de morte no Portugal medievo

• Author(s): Duarte, Luís Miguel
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/56088
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Pena de morte - Portugal - Idade média; História de Portugal - Idade Média
• Document Type: Contribution To Periodical
• Language: Portuguese

Description

This work tries to dress the inventory of Portuguese medieval sources concerning death penalty and to understand their silences. The lack of variety in capital punishment suggests some weakness of the Portuguese penal system, as well as its desperate need of soldiers. Crime laws were mostly intimidating factors.The paper closes with an analysis of two kings who liked to execute justice with their own hands.