Télécharger le livre :  Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
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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 :  The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
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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 :  The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial
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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-06-06

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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial
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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-06-06

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