Középkori és 16–18. századi vesztőhelyek régészete Európában és Magyarországon
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL AND 16TH–18TH-CENTURY EXECUTION SITES IN EUROPE AND HUNGARY

Summary/Abstract: A medieval and post-medieval jurisdiction was essentially a public affair. The entire process of criminal action can be reconstructed from the written sources, the various depictions and historical town maps. The archaeology of law, one of the directions in European historical archaeology, is concerned also with the identification and excavation of places of punishment, and specifically with the archaeology of execution sites. In a broader sense, all material relics and sites associated with the execution of punishment and legal life can be assigned to this field of research. As a result of complex research projects, several medieval and post-medieval execution sites have been uncovered in Europe. Surveyed and discussed here are the research potentials of locating, identifying and excavating execution sites through examples taken from Europe and Hungary.

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