The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

• Yazar: Sarah Tarlow (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
• Seri Bilgileri: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
• Konular: history of crime; medical humanities; capital punishment
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...