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...

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Main Author:	Tarlow, Sarah (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Series:	Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife.
Subjects:	History. Crime and Society. Cultural History. History of Britain and Ireland. History of Science. Imperialism and Colonialism. Civilization > History. Crime > Sociological aspects. Imperialism. Great Britain > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book