Tous les ebooks de la collection "Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife" - Palgrave Macmillan

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Télécharger le livre : Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
Emma Battell Lowman , Sarah Tarlow
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 eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-17
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Télécharger le livre : Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
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Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
Rachel E. Bennett
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-04
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Télécharger le livre : Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840
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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840
Peter King
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-06
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Télécharger le livre : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
Shane Mccorristine
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-19
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Télécharger le livre : Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
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Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
Floris Tomasini
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. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-01
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Télécharger le livre : Executing Magic in the Modern Era
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Executing Magic in the Modern Era
Owen Davies , Francesca Matteoni
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licenseThis book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-07-19
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Télécharger le livre : Dissecting the Criminal Corpse
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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse
Elizabeth T. Hurren
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-17
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Télécharger le livre : The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
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The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
Sarah Tarlow
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-29
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Télécharger le livre : A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse
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A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse
Richard Ward
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-09-27
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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