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Execution State And Society In England 16601900 Simon Devereaux

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Execution State And Society In England 16601900 Simon Devereaux
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
File Extension: PDF
File size: 6.68 MB
Pages: 330
Author: Simon Devereaux
ISBN: 9781009392150, 9781009392136, 9781009392129, 1009392158, 1009392131, 1009392123
Language: English
Year: 2023

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Execution State And Society In England 16601900 Simon Devereaux by Simon Devereaux 9781009392150, 9781009392136, 9781009392129, 1009392158, 1009392131, 1009392123 instant download after payment.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of execution practices in England and their extraordinary transformation from 1660 to 1900. Agonizing execution rituals were once common. Male traitors were hanged, disembowelled while still alive, then decapitated and quartered. Female traitors were burned alive. And common criminals slowly choked to death beneath wooden crossbeams erected at the margins of towns. Some of their bodies were either left to rot on roadside gibbets or dissected by anatomy instructors. Two centuries later, only murderers and traitors were executed – both by hanging – and they died alone, usually quickly, and behind prison walls. In this major contribution to the history of crime and punishment in England, Simon Devereaux reveals how urban growth, and the unique public culture it produced, challenged and largely displaced those traditional elites who valued the old 'Bloody Code' as an instrument of their rule.

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