The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

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 body might remain in the gibbet for many de...

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Main Author: Sarah Tarlow (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
Series:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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