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The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tarlow, Sarah.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015.
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
  • List of Maps
  • List of Tables
  • Chapter 1 Some Further Terror and Peculiar Mark of Infamy
  • Abstract
  • Tom Otter
  • Post-mortem Punishment
  • Hanging in Chains Before the Murder Act
  • The Murder Act
  • Other Post-mortem Punishments: From Customary Sanction to the Full Force of the Law
  • Crimes Other Than Murder: Treason
  • Crimes Other Than Murder: Suicide
  • Thinking About Gibbets: The Historiography of Hanging in Chains
  • Who Was Hung in Chains?
  • Smugglers
  • Interpreting the Murder Act: Dissection or Hanging in Chains?
  • The Rise and Fall of the Gibbet
  • Some Common Misconceptions
  • Myth 1: Gibbeting Is the Same as Execution by Hanging
  • Myth 2: Gibbeting Involves Leaving People to Die in an Iron Cage
  • Myth 3: There Were Traditional Gibbeting Sites
  • Myth 4: Gibbets Were Occupied by a Series of Bodies
  • Chapter 2 How to Hang in Chains: How, Where and When Eighteenth-Century Sheriffs Organised a Gibbeting
  • Abstract
  • The Process
  • From the Scaffold to the Gibbet
  • Locating a Gibbet: The Macro-Geography of Gibbeting
  • The Micro-Geography of Gibbeting
  • Hanging at the Scene of Crime
  • Gibbets in the Landscape
  • Out of the Ordinary
  • Exception 1: London
  • Exception 2: The Admiralty Courts and Maritime Crimes
  • Liminality: The Symbolic Location of Gibbets
  • Technology of the Gibbet
  • Extant Gibbets
  • The Necessary Functions of a Gibbet
  • Gibbet Technology and the Absence of Tradition
  • The 'Carnival' of the Gibbet
  • The Curative Power of the Gibbeted Man
  • Chapter 3 The Afterlife of the Gibbet
  • Abstract
  • How Long Did the Gibbet Remain?
  • When and Why Did a Gibbet Come Down?
  • Theft of Bodies from Gibbets
  • Weather
  • Enclosure and Convenience
  • Gibbet Lore
  • The Material Afterlives of the Gibbet
  • Bodies and Body Parts: Eugene Aram.
  • Phrenology at the 1838 British Association Meeting
  • Chapter 4 Conclusions: Why Gibbet Anyone?
  • Abstract
  • The Costs of Gibbeting
  • The Murder Act: An Anachronism?
  • The Disappearance of the Body
  • Hanging in Chains as Deterrent, Retribution or Social Revenge
  • The Body in Chains
  • Criminal Tales and Narrative Persons
  • Conclusions: Hanging in Chains
  • The Power of Hanging in Chains
  • Appendix 1: All Cases of Hanging in Chains
  • Appendix 2: Maps, 1752-1834
  • Concept Index
  • Historical Publications Index
  • Name Index
  • Place Index.

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