Chapter 4 Delivering Post-Mortem Harm: Cutting the Corpse Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England

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 Cor...

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Autor principal: T. Hurren, Elizabeth (auth)
Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2016
Colecção:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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