Filter by

  • Publication Year
  • Availability
  • Attachment
  • Collection Type
  • General Material Designation
    See More
  • Location
  • Language
Found 1 from your keywords: subject="The Golden"
cover
The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
Comment Share
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 suspending it from a tall post. A body might remain in the gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces. H…

Edition
1
ISBN/ISSN
978-1-137-60089-9
Collation
oer.unej.ac.id
Series Title
Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Call Number
-