Dissecting the Criminal Corpse: Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England - Softcover
Book 3 of 9: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Synopsis
PART I: INTRODUCTION.- 1. The Condemned Body Leaving the Courtroom.- 2. Becoming Really Dead: Dying by Degrees.- 3. In Bad Shape: Sensing the Criminal Corpse.- PART II: PREAMBLE.- 4. Delivering Post-Mortem 'Harm': Cutting the Corpse.- 5. Mapping Punishment:Provincial Places to Dissect.- 6. The Disappearing Body: Dissection to the Extremities.- PART III: CONCLUSION.- 7. The Anatomical Legacy of the Criminal Corpse.-
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