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The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
Sarah Tarlow
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Hardback. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife. Num Pages: 112 pages, biography. BIC Classification: YQS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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 body might remain in the gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces. Hanging in chains was a very different sort of post-mortem punishment from anatomical dissection, although the two were equal alternatives in the eyes of the law. Where dissection obliterated and de-individualised the ... Read more
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 body might remain in the gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces. Hanging in chains was a very different sort of post-mortem punishment from anatomical dissection, although the two were equal alternatives in the eyes of the law. Where dissection obliterated and de-individualised the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Number of Pages
155
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137600882
SKU
V9781137600882
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About Sarah Tarlow
Sarah Tarlow is Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Leicester, UK. Before coming to Leicester in 2000 she taught at the University of Wales Lampeter, UK, and has published extensively on the archaeology of death and burial, archaeological theory and on post-medieval archaeology.
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