Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
This 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 site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan
2017
|
| Series: | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | DOAB: download the publication DOAB: description of the publication |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
MARC
| LEADER | 00000naaaa2200000uu 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | doab_20_500_12854_47174 | ||
| 005 | 20210211 | ||
| 003 | oapen | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr|mn|---annan | ||
| 008 | 20210211s2017 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d | ||
| 020 | |a /doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59519-1 | ||
| 020 | |a 9783319595191 | ||
| 020 | |a 9783319595184 | ||
| 040 | |a oapen |c oapen | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59519-1 |c doi | |
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 042 | |a dc | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Francesca Matteoni |4 auth | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Owen Davies |4 auth | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine |
| 260 | |b Palgrave Macmillan |c 2017 | ||
| 300 | |a 1 electronic resource (118 p.) | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife | |
| 506 | 0 | |a Open Access |2 star |f Unrestricted online access | |
| 520 | |a This 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 site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man's hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals. | ||
| 540 | |a Creative Commons |f https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |2 cc |4 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | ||
| 546 | |a English | ||
| 653 | |a witchcraft and magic | ||
| 653 | |a medical humanities | ||
| 653 | |a capital punishment | ||
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |a www.oapen.org |u https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-59519-1 |7 0 |z DOAB: download the publication |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |a www.oapen.org |u https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/47174 |7 0 |z DOAB: description of the publication |