Hanging in Chains
| Author | : Albert Hartshorne |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1891 |
| Genre | : Capital punishment |
| ISBN | : |
Hanging In Chains
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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
| Author | : Sarah Tarlow |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2018-05-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3319779087 |
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.
Hanging in Chains
| Author | : Albert Hartshorne |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 1891 |
| Genre | : Capital punishment |
| ISBN | : |
"First edition of this scarce book, and an uncommonly upbeat work on capital punishment. Hartshorne's Hanging In Chains provides us with a brief history of execution in England and Europe and then covers in great detail the practice of gibbetting, the hanging of a person in chains as either a means of execution or torture and the display of piracy and wrongdoing to the general public. The work has significant material on pirates and piracy."--Description from Buddenbrooks, bookseller.
The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
| Author | : Sarah Tarlow |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 163 |
| Release | : 2015-12-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1137600896 |
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall post. A body might remain in the gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces. Hanging in chains was a very different sort of post-mortem punishment from anatomical dissection, although the two were equal alternatives in the eyes of the law. Where dissection obliterated and de-individualised the body, hanging in chains made it monumental and rooted it in the landscape, adding to personal notoriety. Focusing particularly on the period 1752-1832, this book provides a summary of the historical evidence, the factual history of gibbetting which explores the locations of gibbets, the material technologies involved in hanging in chains, and the actual process from erection to eventual collapse. It also considers the meanings, effects and legacy of this gruesome practice.
The History of Gibbeting
| Author | : Samantha Priestley |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2020-03-30 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 152675519X |
An eye-opening guide to the public execution practice of hanging criminals in body-shaped cages as a crime deterrent or religious punishment. The history of gibbeting is the story of one of Britain’s most brutal forms of punishments, the hanging of criminals in a body shaped metal cage as a warning and as a form of justice. From the folklore of live gibbetings to the eerie historical documenting of this weird post-execution tradition, The History of Gibbeting examines how and why we dealt with murderers and other serious criminals in this way. The book uses case studies through history and takes a look at how the introduction of the Murder Act shaped our relationship with gibbeting for years to come, and how we as a society demanded the most shocking post-mortem treatment of criminals. Whether gibbeting was ever a successful deterrent, it is still a fascination today and gibbet cages remain on display in museums all over the country. “I have to say that I was not aware that gibbeting involved metal cages, nor how society clamored for post-mortems on gibbeted victims. Absolutely fascinating, but not for the faint-hearted!” —Books Monthly
Chains
| Author | : Laurie Halse Anderson |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2010-01-05 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1416905863 |
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom. From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual.
Hanging Captain Gordon
| Author | : Ron Soodalter |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2010-05-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1416522921 |
On a frosty day in February 1862, hundreds gathered to watch the execution of Nathaniel Gordon. Two years earlier, Gordon had taken Africans in chains from the Congo -- a hanging offense for more than forty years that no one had ever enforced. But with the country embroiled in a civil war and Abraham Lincoln at the helm, a sea change was taking place. Gordon, in the wrong place at the wrong time, got caught up in the wave. For the first time, Hanging Captain Gordon chronicles the trial and execution of the only man in history to face conviction for slave trading -- exploring the many compelling issues and circumstances that led to one man paying the price for a crime committed by many. Filled with sharply drawn characters, Soodalter's vivid account sheds light on one of the more shameful aspects of our history and provides a link to similar crimes against humanity still practiced today.
Port Towns and Urban Cultures
| Author | : Brad Beaven |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2016-05-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1137483164 |
Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of maritime and urban space, port towns were sites of complex cultural exchanges. This book, the product of international scholarship, offers innovative and challenging perspectives on the cultural histories of ports, ranging from eighteenth-century Africa to twentieth-century Australasia and Europe. The essays in this important collection explore two key themes; the nature and character of ‘sailortown’ culture and port-town life, and the representations of port towns that were forged both within and beyond urban-maritime communities. The book’s exploration of port town identities and cultures, and its use of a rich array of methodological approaches and cultural artefacts, will make it of great interest to both urban and maritime historians. It also represents a major contribution to the emerging, interdisciplinary field of coastal studies.
Narcissus in Chains
| Author | : Laurell K. Hamilton |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 767 |
| Release | : 2001-10-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101146338 |
In her tenth adventure, nothing can save vampire hunter Anita Blake from a twist of fate that draws her ever closer to the brink of humanity.
The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler
| Author | : Irene Quenzler Brown |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2003-04-30 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 9780674010208 |
In 1806 thousands descended on Lenox, Massachusetts, for the hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his 13-year-old daughter, Betsy. Using the trial report to reconstruct the crime and drawing on Wheeler’s jailhouse autobiography to unravel his troubled family history, the authors illuminate a rarely seen slice of early America.
