Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife – serie
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Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse
Av Richard Ward
Inbunden, 2015
962 kr
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Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. The chapters 'Introduction: A …
Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840
Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England
Av Peter King
Inbunden, 2015
322 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, …
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
Posthumous Punishment, Harm and Redemption over Time
Inbunden, 2017
322 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt …
Dissecting the Criminal Corpse
Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2016
322 kr
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Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern society. Dissecting the Criminal …
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
When is Death?
Inbunden, 2017
322 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the …
Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
Av Sarah Tarlow
Inbunden, 2015
322 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall post. A …
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
When is Death?
Häftad, 2020
266 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the …
Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
Av Sarah Tarlow
Häftad, 2018
322 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall post. A …
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
Av Sarah Tarlow, Emma Battell Lowman
Häftad, 2018
322 kr
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This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of …
Executing Magic in the Modern Era
Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
Av Owen Davies, Francesca Matteoni
Inbunden, 2017
322 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licenseThis book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows …
Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
Inbunden, 2017
322 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, it takes the reader on a …
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
Av Sarah Tarlow, Emma Battell Lowman
Inbunden, 2018
322 kr
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This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of …
Executing Magic in the Modern Era
Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
Av Owen Davies, Francesca Matteoni
Häftad, 2018
322 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licenseThis book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows …
Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
Häftad, 2018
322 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, it takes the reader on a …
