On mercy / Malcolm Bull.

"Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. The power of monarchs was legitimated by their acts of clemency, their mercy demonstrating their divine nature. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had become "an injustice committed against society, a manifest vice."...

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Main Author: Bull, Malcolm (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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