Beam, Sara
Sara Beam is a Professor of History at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on the history of social life and cultural values in early modern Europe. In 2007, she published a study of political satire during the Renaissance entitled Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France, which won the Roland Bainton Book Prize. More recent publications on gender and the history of criminal justice include “Adultère, indices médicaux et recul de la torture à Genève (XVIIe siècle),” Genre et histoire 16 (Fall 2015) and “Turning a Blind Eye: Infanticide and Missing Babies in Seventeenth-Century Geneva,” Law and History Review (forthcoming 2021). She is currently writing a book manuscript entitled “From Truth to Punishment: The Decline of Torture in Europe, 1550-1750.”
Research Interests: Early Modern Europe; History of Torture 1400-1800; Popular Culture 1400-1800; History of Print Culture 1500-1700; History of France 1400-1800; Switzerland 1400-1800
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Victoria |
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| Email: | sbeam@uvic.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, French |
| Publications: | “Turning a Blind Eye: Infanticide and Missing Babies in Seventeenth-century Geneva,” Law and History Review, accepted for publication “Torture and Punishment in Reformation Geneva,” in Companion to the Reformation in Geneva. Edited by Jon Balserak. (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2021), in production A Seventeenth-Century Infanticide Trial, a translated and annotated edition of 17thC Genevan criminal trial, in production with the University of Toronto Press “From Truth to Punishment: The Decline of Judicial Torture in Europe, 1550-1750” book manuscript in progress, submission expected December 2020 “Violence and Justice in Europe: Punishment, Torture and Execution,” Cambridge World History of Violence. Edited by Robert Antony, Stuart Carroll, Caroline Dodds Pennock. Vol. 3, ch. 20. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 389-407. “Gender and the Prosecution of Adultery in Geneva, 1550-1700,” in Women’s Criminality in Europe, 1600-1914. Edited by Manon van de Heijden, Marion Pluskota and Sanne Muurling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 91-113. Spanish translation of 2017 “Consistories and Civil Authorities” as “Consistorios y los autoridades civiles” in Fe y castigo en la Europa del Antiguo Régimen. Translated by Doris Moreno. Edited by Gretchen Starr-Lebeau and Charles Parker. Madrid: Catedra, 2020, 88-99. “Consistories and Civil Authorities,” in Judging Faith/Punishing Sin: Inquisitions and Consistories in the Early Modern World. Edited by Gretchen Starr-Lebeau and Charles Parker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 66-76. “Local Officials and Torture in Seventeenth-century Bordeaux,” in Social Relations, Politics and Power in Early Modern France. Robert Descimon and the Historian’s Craft. Edited by Barbara B. Diefendorf and Michael Wolfe. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2016, 61-86. With Megan Armstrong, editors of forum “Communities and Religious Identity in the Early Modern Francophone World,” French Historical Studies 40: 3 (2017): 381-473 |
