Titlebook: Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse; Sarah Tarlow,Emma Battell Lowman Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Auth

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Murder and the Law, 1752–1832 are considered here, as are the alternative ways of strengthening the death penalty which were not in the end written into law. The numbers affected by the Murder Act were nowhere very high, but there was considerable geographical and chronological variation in the frequency with which the provisio

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Hanging in Chainsvolved practically in gibbeting a body (or ‘hanging in chains’ as it was known), including the locations chosen, and the technology of the gibbet. Three cases of hanging in chains are discussed: two in England and one in Canada. The Canadian one is especially interesting as it is a rare incidence of

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Seeking the Physical Remains of the Criminal Corpse and fragmented as they were by the end of their post-mortem punishments. Very few remains received any sort of burial, but a number were put to use as mounted skeletons or anatomical preparations for educational purposes. Other remains were curated as macabre souvenirs. Other uses included modellin

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Folk Beliefs and Popular Talesrytellers. This chapter considers the range of artistic and creative afterlives of criminal bodies. Some criminals and their ends were remembered in anonymous folk ballads or ghoulish stories; others featured in works of published literature or art. The theatre of execution that was so significant i

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