Chapter 3 The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England
In: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. This book has two open access chapters under a CC BY license.