The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

by Sarah Tarlow

Book Overview

This book is 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...

• 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"