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Paperback The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain Book

ISBN: 1013289005

ISBN13: 9781013289002

The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

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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...

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