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1 online resource (1 PDF file (vii, 118 pages)). |
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text file PDF rda |
| Series |
Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife |
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Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man's hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed December 12, 2017). |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Criminal Bodies -- 3. The Corpse Gives Life -- 4. The Places and Tools of Execution -- 5. Lingering Influences -- Index. |
| Local Note |
SpringerLink Springer Nature Open Access eBooks |
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Dead.
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Criminals -- Death.
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Executions and executioners.
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Social history.
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Crime -- Sociological aspects.
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Magic -- history.
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Cadaver.
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Medicine, Traditional -- history.
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Capital Punishment -- history.
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Criminals.
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History, 18th Century.
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History, 19th Century.
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History, 20th Century.
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History of science.
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Crime & criminology.
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British & Irish history.
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Social & cultural history.
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Science -- History.
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Social Science -- Criminology.
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History -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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History -- Social History.
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Crime -- Sociological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00883017
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Dead. (OCoLC)fst00888385
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Executions and executioners. (OCoLC)fst00917772
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Social history. (OCoLC)fst01122498
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Matteoni, Francesca, 1975- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davies, Owen, 1969- Executing magic in the modern era. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017] 9783319595184 3319595180 (OCoLC)985079809 |
| ISBN |
9783319595191 (eBook) |
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9783319595184 (alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-319-59519-1 doi |
| ISBN |
3319595199 |
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3319595180 |
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