Start Over Please hold this item Remove from Book Cart MARC Display Return To Browse View/Export Marked Records Clear Saved Records
 
     
Limit search to available items
Record: Previous Record Next Record
Author Hurren, Elizabeth T.
Title Dissecting the criminal corpse : staging post-execution punishment in early modern England / Elizabeth T. Hurren.
Publisher London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]


LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  HV8579 .H87 2016  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Descript 326 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Content text
still image
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Note "This book is open access under a CC BY license"--Back cover.
Contents 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.
ISBN 9781137582485 (hbk.) :
Click on the terms below to find similar items in the catalogue
Author Hurren, Elizabeth T.
Series Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife
Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife.
Subject Hanging -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Human dissection -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Descript 326 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Content text
still image
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Note "This book is open access under a CC BY license"--Back cover.
Contents 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.
ISBN 9781137582485 (hbk.) :
Author Hurren, Elizabeth T.
Series Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife
Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife.
Subject Hanging -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Human dissection -- England -- History -- 18th century.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  HV8579 .H87 2016  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Hanging -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Human dissection -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Descript 326 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Content text
still image
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Note "This book is open access under a CC BY license"--Back cover.
Contents 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.
ISBN 9781137582485 (hbk.) :

Links and services for this item: