Las penas corporales en el derecho hispánico e inglés en la Edad Media: Estudio comparado

Abstract

This paper covers a comparative study of the types of corporal punishment in the Modern Age in the Hispanic and English legal sources. This paper also provides some evidence of the enforcement by courts of these afflictive penalties in the Spanish and English territories. In doing so, this study includes some judgments which imposed cor- poral punishment by the Real Audiencia y Chancillería of Valladolid, the Sala de Alcal- des de Casa y Corte and the Consejo de Castilla in Spain and by London’s Central Criminal Court from 1674 to 1850 in England. This study also includes some contribu- tions of legal literature from 16th to 18th centuries concerning corporal punishment. Conclusively, London’s Central Criminal Court passed corporal punishment (pillory, branding and whipping) until much later than the Spanish courts.