Chapter 3 The Gibbet in the Landscape

Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England

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Ward, Richard (editor)
Collection
Wellcome
Language
English
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Abstract
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. This book has two open access chapters under a CC BY license.
Book
A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse
URI
http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29788
Keywords
capital punishment; smugglers; history; suicides; war criminals; execution; traitors; capital punishment; smugglers; history; suicides; war criminals; execution; traitors; Chichester; Gibbeting; London
DOI
10.1057/9781137444011
ISBN
9781137443991
OCN
1126668624
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publisher website
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/books
Publication date and place
Basingstoke, 2015
Grantor
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Series
Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife,
Classification
General and world history
History and Archaeology
c 1500 onwards to present day
Social and cultural history
Criminal or forensic psychology
Public international law: criminal law
Criminal law: procedure and offences
Pages
313
Public remark
Relevant Wikipedia pages: Chichester - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester; Gibbeting - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbeting; London - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London; Smuggling - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/