This book offers an overview of the beautiful, powerful, and dynamic array of opportunities to promote health through the ...
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This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth ...
Lire la suiteThose convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. ...
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This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking ...
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This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in ...
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This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean ...
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This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons ...
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This book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, ...
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This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and ...
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This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth ...
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