The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

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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 tal...

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Main Author: Tarlow, Sarah (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife,
Subjects:
Great Britain > History.
Imperialism.
Civilization > History.
Science > History.
Crime > Sociological aspects.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Cultural History.
History of Science.
Crime and Society.
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