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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tarlow, Sarah.
Other Authors: Battell Lowman, Emma.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its Afterlife Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Part I The Criminal Corpse in History
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • The Criminal Corpse
  • The World of the Murder Act
  • Body and Power
  • Chapter 2 The Power of the Criminal Corpse in the Medieval World
  • Getting Medieval on Your Ass
  • Early Medieval Death and the Context of Punitive Death
  • Late Medieval Death and the Changing Context of Punishment
  • Medieval Bodies: Living, Lived, Dead and Damned
  • Death and the Dead Body in the Medieval World
  • Scary Monsters
  • Magic and Mummia
  • Crime Is to Sin as Punishment Is to Penance
  • Pain: The Aim of Punishment or Its By-Product?
  • Medieval Criminal Law and Sanctions on the Body
  • Powerful Punishments and Traitors' Bodies
  • Into Modernity
  • Chapter 3 How Was the Power of the Criminal Corpse Harnessed in Early Modern England?
  • The Context
  • Changes in Criminal Justice During the Age of Spectacular Punishment
  • The Uses of the Dead in Early Modernity
  • Changing Meanings of the Dead Body
  • Building a New Medicine
  • The Dissected Body as Cultural Symbol
  • Medicine and Folklore
  • The Social Consequences of Deviancy
  • The Reformation and the End of Purgatory
  • Good and Bad Deaths
  • Uses of the Criminal Body
  • The Power of the State
  • Subverting the Theatre of Pain
  • Early Modern Criminal Bodies
  • The Criminal Body in Different Belief Discourses
  • Part II The World of the Murder Act
  • Chapter 4 Murder and the Law, 1752-1832
  • Making the Murder Act
  • Making Criminal Corpses
  • Impacts, Intended and Otherwise, of the Murder Act
  • Unmaking the Murder Act
  • Chapter 5 Anatomisation and Dissection
  • Duty, Death, and Discretion
  • 'I'm Not Dead Yet!' Medical Men and the Uncertainty of Death
  • Between Science, Spectacle and the State
  • Access and Ambition
  • 'Good Bodies': Damage, Decay and Timing.
  • Corpses in the Countryside: Changing Patterns of Distribution of Anatomical Subjects
  • The Value of the Criminal Corpse
  • The End of Dissection and Anatomisation in the Criminal Justice System
  • Chapter 6 Hanging in Chains
  • Wood, Metal, Land and Flesh: Making Gibbets
  • Progress and Punishment: Did the Gibbet Work?
  • Three Gibbet Stories
  • William Jobling, 1832
  • Spence Broughton, 1792
  • Marie-Josephte Corriveau, 1763
  • The Gibbet Today: Enduring and Apocryphal
  • Part III The Legacy of the Criminal Corpse
  • Chapter 7 Seeking the Physical Remains of the Criminal Corpse
  • Resting in Peace or Resting in Pieces?
  • Put to New Use: Anonymous Object or Universal Representation?
  • Identity Matters/Identified Matter
  • Enduring Power and Uncomfortable Questions
  • Chapter 8 Folk Beliefs and Popular Tales
  • The Criminal Corpse in Literature
  • The Gibbet in Literature
  • The Melancholy of Anatomy
  • The Magical Corpse
  • The Criminal Corpse in Art
  • Into Modernity
  • Popular Belief, Cultural Production and Punitive Force
  • Chapter 9 Conclusions: Ethics, Bullet Points and Other Ways of Telling
  • The Ethical Legacy of the Criminal Corpse
  • Studying the Criminal Corpse: Our Own Ethical Position
  • Stories We Could Tell About the Criminal Corpse
  • Final Conclusions
  • Index.

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