In his Soirée Européenne, Prof. Whitman will comment on a variety of medieval and early modern images turning on the danger that a judge might, by very virtue of his office, commit murder. Prof. Whitman explained his choice as follows: “Pre-modern judges were expected to sentence accused persons to death. Did that make them murderers? This question exercised theologians and jurists in many parts of the pre-modern world, including Europe.”
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