Executing Magic in the Modern Era

Owen Davies, Francesca Matteoni

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• This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early t... Lees meer

Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834

Rachel E Bennett

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• Open Access Provides the first extensive investigation of the use of capital punishment in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Scotland Utilises Scottis... Lees meer

Remembering and Disremembering the Dead

Floris Tomasini

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• This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. T... Lees meer

A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

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• Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and th... Lees meer

Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse

Sarah Tarlow, Emma Battell Lowman

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its A
• This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the e... Lees meer

Dissecting the Criminal Corpse

Elizabeth T Hurren

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• Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether... Lees meer

Executing Magic in the Modern Era

Owen Davies, Francesca Matteoni

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its A
• This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early t... Lees meer

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and Its Timings

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its A
• Open Access Interrogates the philosophical question of what death means and when it occurs Explores such questions in chapters with a wide temporal an... Lees meer

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and Its Timings

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its A
• Open Access Interrogates the philosophical question of what death means and when it occurs Explores such questions in chapters with a wide temporal an... Lees meer

The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

Sarah Tarlow

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its A
• Provides the first extensive examination of 'gibbetting', or 'hanging in chains' since the nineteenth century Explores the processes, technologies and... Lees meer

Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse

Sarah Tarlow, Emma Battell Lowman

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its A
• This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the e... Lees meer

Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834

Rachel E Bennett

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its A
• Open Access Provides the first extensive investigation of the use of capital punishment in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Scotland Utilises Scottis... Lees meer

The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

Sarah Tarlow

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its A
• Provides the first extensive examination of 'gibbetting', or 'hanging in chains' since the nineteenth century Explores the processes, technologies and... Lees meer

Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840

Peter King

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its A
• This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, an... Lees meer