The Resource The golden and ghoulish age of the gibbet in Britain, Sarah Tarlow
The golden and ghoulish age of the gibbet in Britain, Sarah Tarlow
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- Summary
- "This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting ('hanging in chains'), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall post. A body might remain in the gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces. Hanging in chains was a very different sort of post-mortem punishment from anatomical dissection, although the two were equal alternatives in the eyes of the law. Where dissection obliterated and de-individualised the body, hanging in chains made it monumental and rooted it in the landscape, adding to personal notoriety. Focusing particularly on the period 1752-1832, this book provides a summary of the historical evidence, the factual history of gibbetting which explores the locations of gibbets, the material technologies involved in hanging in chains, and the actual process from erection to eventual collapse. It also considers the meanings, effects and legacy of this gruesome practice."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- Chapter 1: Some Further Terror and Peculiar Mark of Infamy
- Chapter 2: How to Hang in Chains: how, where and when eighteenth-century sheriffs organised a gibbeting
- Chapter 3: The Afterlife of the Gibbet
- Chapter 4: Conclusions: Why Gibbet Anyone?
- Appendix 1: All Cases of Hanging in Chains 1700-1832
- Appendix 2: Maps, 1752-1834
- Index
- Isbn
- 9781137600899
- Label
- The golden and ghoulish age of the gibbet in Britain
- Title
- The golden and ghoulish age of the gibbet in Britain
- Statement of responsibility
- Sarah Tarlow
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting ('hanging in chains'), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall post. A body might remain in the gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces. Hanging in chains was a very different sort of post-mortem punishment from anatomical dissection, although the two were equal alternatives in the eyes of the law. Where dissection obliterated and de-individualised the body, hanging in chains made it monumental and rooted it in the landscape, adding to personal notoriety. Focusing particularly on the period 1752-1832, this book provides a summary of the historical evidence, the factual history of gibbetting which explores the locations of gibbets, the material technologies involved in hanging in chains, and the actual process from erection to eventual collapse. It also considers the meanings, effects and legacy of this gruesome practice."--
- Assigning source
- Back cover
- Cataloging source
- COO
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tarlow, Sarah
- Dewey number
- 364.66094109032
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV8532.G7
- LC item number
- T37 2017eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Punishment
- Executions and executioners
- Drugs trade
- Executions and executioners
- Punishment
- Great Britain
- Label
- The golden and ghoulish age of the gibbet in Britain, Sarah Tarlow
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Some Further Terror and Peculiar Mark of Infamy -- Chapter 2: How to Hang in Chains: how, where and when eighteenth-century sheriffs organised a gibbeting -- Chapter 3: The Afterlife of the Gibbet -- Chapter 4: Conclusions: Why Gibbet Anyone? -- Appendix 1: All Cases of Hanging in Chains 1700-1832 -- Appendix 2: Maps, 1752-1834 -- Index
- Control code
- 1019944337
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781137600899
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 10.1057/978-1-137-60089-9
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- com.springer.onix.9781137600899
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1019944337
- Label
- The golden and ghoulish age of the gibbet in Britain, Sarah Tarlow
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Some Further Terror and Peculiar Mark of Infamy -- Chapter 2: How to Hang in Chains: how, where and when eighteenth-century sheriffs organised a gibbeting -- Chapter 3: The Afterlife of the Gibbet -- Chapter 4: Conclusions: Why Gibbet Anyone? -- Appendix 1: All Cases of Hanging in Chains 1700-1832 -- Appendix 2: Maps, 1752-1834 -- Index
- Control code
- 1019944337
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781137600899
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 10.1057/978-1-137-60089-9
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- com.springer.onix.9781137600899
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1019944337
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