The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

by Sarah Tarlow

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Provides the first extensive examination of 'gibbetting', or 'hanging in chains' since the nineteenth century

Explores the processes, technologies and macro-geographies involved in gibbeting

Assesses what the practice tells us about attitudes to bodies, the dead, and to criminals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1349958794

ISBN13:9781349958795

Release Date:December 2018

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:155 Pages

Weight:0.47 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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