The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain - 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
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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2017 Edition
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