The golden and ghoulish age of the gibbet in Britain /
"This book is published 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 suspendin...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Series: | Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
