The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

by Sarah Tarlow

Book Overview

Provides the first extensive examination of 'gibbetting', or 'hanging in chains' since the nineteenth century

Explores the processes, technologies and macro-geographies involved in gibbeting

Assesses what the practice tells us about attitudes to bodies, the dead, and to criminals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349958794
• ISBN13: 9781349958795
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"