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

The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137600882)

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

The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

$31.00
The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain by Tarlow, Sarah

The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

$31.00
Format: Hardcover
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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



Author: Sarah Tarlow
ISBN-10: 1137600888
ISBN-13: 9781137600882
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/29/2015
Pages: 155
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d
By Sarah Tarlow
By Sarah Tarlow
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Sarah Tarlow is Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Leicester, UK. Before coming to Leicester in 2000 she taught at the University of Wales Lampeter, UK, and has published extensively on the archaeology of death and burial, archaeological theory and on post-medieval archaeology.

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