The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain by 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...

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Main Author: Tarlow, Sarah (Author)
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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Subjects:
Great Britain—History.
Imperialism.
Civilization—History.
History.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
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