The golden and ghoulish age of the gibbet in Britain [[electronic resource] /] / by Sarah Tarlow |
Autore | Tarlow Sarah <1967-> |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 155 p. 24 ill.) |
Disciplina | 941 |
Collana | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife |
Soggetto topico |
Imperialism
Civilization - History History Crime - Sociological aspects History of Britain and Ireland Imperialism and Colonialism Cultural History History of Science Crime and Society |
Soggetto non controllato |
history of crime
medical humanities capital punishment |
ISBN | 1-137-60089-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Some Further Terror and Peculiar Mark of Infamy -- Chapter 2: How to Hang in Chains: how, where and when eighteenth-century sheriffs organised a gibbeting -- Chapter 3: The Afterlife of the Gibbet -- Chapter 4: Conclusions: Why Gibbet Anyone? -- Appendix 1: All Cases of Hanging in Chains 1700-1832 -- Appendix 2: Maps, 1752-1834 -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910231240703321 |
Tarlow Sarah <1967-> | ||
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Punishing the criminal corpse, 1700-1840 : aggravated forms of the death penalty in England / / Peter King |
Autore | King Peter <1949-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XV, 212 p. 3 illus.) |
Disciplina | 364.660941 |
Collana | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife |
Soggetto topico |
Civilization—History
Great Britain—History Crime—Sociological aspects History Social history Cultural History History of Britain and Ireland Crime and Society History of Science Social History |
Soggetto non controllato |
history of crime
medical humanities capital punishment |
ISBN | 1-137-51361-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. ‘Hanging Not Punishment Enough’; Attitudes to Aggravated Forms of Execution and the Making of the Murder Act 1690-1752 -- Chapter 3. Patterns of Post-Execution Sentencing in England and Wales 1752-1834. The Murder Act in Operation -- Chapter 4. Changing Attitudes to Post-Execution Punishment 1752-1834 -- Chapter 5. Conclusion -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910231240803321 |
King Peter <1949-> | ||
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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