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 decades, whi...

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Hovedforfatter:	Sarah Tarlow
Format:	Online
Sprog:	engelsk
Udgivet:	Palgrave Macmillan 2021
Fag:	K5000-5582 history of crime medical humanities capital punishment bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology::JKV Crime & criminology::JKVG Drugs trade / drug trafficking
Online adgang:	24598
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