Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse write by Sarah Tarlow. This book was released on 2018-05-17. Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.
Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834
Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834 write by Rachel E Bennett. This book was released on 2020-10-08. Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, it takes the reader on a journey from the courtrooms of Scotland to the theatre of the gallows. It introduces them to several of the malefactors who faced the hangman's noose and explores the traditional hallmarks of the spectacle of the scaffold. It demonstrates that the period between 1740 and 1834 was one of discussion, debate and fundamental change in the use of the death sentence and how it was staged in practice. In addition, the study provides an innovative investigation of the post-mortem punishment of the criminal corpse. It offers the reader an insight into the scene at the foot of the gibbets from which criminal bodies were displayed, and around the dissection tables of Scotland's main universities where criminal bodies were used as cadavers for anatomical demonstration. In doing so it reveals an intermediate stage in the long-term disappearance of public bodily punishment. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals write by Edward Payson Evans. This book was released on 1906. The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Female Husbands
Female Husbands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Female Husbands write by Jen Manion. This book was released on 2020-03-26. Female Husbands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.
Jacobite Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745
Jacobite Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jacobite Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745 write by Robert Forbes. This book was released on 1834. Jacobite Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
