The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain by Sarah Tarlow

The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

Sarah Tarlow

155 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced

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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...

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