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Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth ...
Lee masDissecting the Criminal Corpse : Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. ...
Lee mas
Executing Magic in the Modern Era
This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking ...
Lee mas
Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840
This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons ...
Lee mas
The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth ...
Lee mas
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