Dissecting the Criminal Corpse: Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leicester
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 351
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-58249-2
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-1137582485
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 358-page single-authored monograph, encapsulates the first study of resuscitation medicine in crime history. Based on a substantial dataset of post-execution punishment spectacles, its historical prism is thousands of dissection cases under-researched in English record offices and national collections, produced from a major Wellcome Trust funded Programme Grant (2012-6). The book retraces penal choreographies, remaps punishment venues, uncovers the mystery of medical death, and exposes the historical cliché of corpses dangling from the hangman’s rope in Georgian England. Often the dangerous dead survived judicial hanging; penal surgeons, not executioners, completed capital sentences in early modern England.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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