The golden and ghoulish age of the gibbet in Britain

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 tall post. A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Tarlow, Sarah, 1967- author (author)
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	London : Palgrave Macmillan 2017 2017.
Edición:	1st ed. 2017.
Colección:	Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife.
Materias:	Imperialism. Civilization > History. History. Crime > Sociological aspects. History of Britain and Ireland. Imperialism and Colonialism. Cultural History. History of Science. Crime and Society. Great Britain > History. history of crime medical humanities capital punishment
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:	https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425412206719

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Chapter 1: Some Further Terror and Peculiar Mark of Infamy
Chapter 2: How to Hang in Chains: how, where and when eighteenth-century sheriffs organised a gibbeting
Chapter 3: The Afterlife of the Gibbet
Chapter 4: Conclusions: Why Gibbet Anyone?
Appendix 1: All Cases of Hanging in Chains 1700-1832
Appendix 2: Maps, 1752-1834
Index.

The golden and ghoulish age of the gibbet in Britain

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