Hung Drawn And Quartered

Author : Jonathan J. Moore
Publisher : Metro Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 1435164709

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Hung, Drawn, and Quartered by Jonathan J. Moore Pdf

Hung, Drawn, and Quartered takes an informative, no-holds-barred look at the history of execution, from Ancient Rome to the modern day. It is divided into eleven broadly chronological chapters, each exploring a different form of execution and is packed with gory details, eyewitness accounts, and little-known facts.

Author : Graham Humphreys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 1912740060

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Hung, Drawn and Executed by Graham Humphreys Pdf

Graham Humphreys' career as a poster artist looms large over horror cinema. From designing the iconic Evil Dead poster to Nightmare on Elm Street and House of a Thousand Corpses, his work is familiar to everyone. It's easy to see why his work grabs the attention of horror fans and filmmakers alike as he continually and systematically sets the bar ever higher in his quest for sheer terror and pure entertainment. With more than 40 years experience he is one of the few contemporary illustrators using the traditional medium of gouache to paint his images. Includes previously unseen work: paintings, drawings, and color studies.

Author : Clive Gifford
Publisher : Buster Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178055477X

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Hung, Drawn and Quartered by Clive Gifford Pdf

Take a gruesome trip through time with this grisly compendium of death! From the best way to shrink a head to making a mummy in eight simple steps, and with fascinating facts about botched beheadings, greedy royals and the plague, Hung, Drawn and Quartered looks at the most gruesome facts from the past.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307819291

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Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault Pdf

A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

Author : :A:F Murison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sir William Wallace by :A:F Murison Pdf

Author : Samantha Priestley
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781526755193

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The History of Gibbeting by Samantha Priestley Pdf

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

Author : Sarah Tarlow,Emma Battell Lowman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319779089

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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse by Sarah Tarlow,Emma Battell Lowman Pdf

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.

Author : Samar Yazbek
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473527942

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The Crossing by Samar Yazbek Pdf

'ONE OF THE FIRST POLITICAL CLASSICS OF THE 21st CENTURY'- Observer 'EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL, POIGNANT AND AFFECTING. I WAS GREATLY MOVED' Michael Palin FOREWORD BY CHRISTINA LAMB Journalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad's regime. When the uprising in Syria turned to bloodshed, she was determined to take action and secretly returned several times. The Crossing is her rare, powerful and courageous testament to what she found inside the borders of her homeland. From the first peaceful protests for democracy to the arrival of ISIS, she bears witness to those struggling to survive, to the humanity that can flower amidst annihilation, and why so many are now desperate to flee.

Author : Jonathan J. Moore (Historien.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 0857624954

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Hung, Drawn, and Quartered by Jonathan J. Moore (Historien.) Pdf

Hung, Drawn, and Quartered takes an informative, no-holds-barred look at the history of execution, from Ancient Rome to the modern day. It is divided into eleven broadly chronological chapters, each exploring a different form of execution and is packed with gory details, eyewitness accounts, and little-known facts. Feature pages reveal the science behind each form of execution and pose fascinating questions such as: how long do heads stay alive after beheading? Illustrated throughout with a wide range of archive images.

Author : J. G. Bellamy,John G. Bellamy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521526388

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The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages by J. G. Bellamy,John G. Bellamy Pdf

Professor Bellamy places the theory of treason in its political setting and analyses the part it played in the development of legal and political thought in this period. He pays particular attention to the Statute of Treason of 1352, an act with a notable effect on later constitutional history and which, in the opinion of Edward Coke, had a legal importance second only to that of Magna Carta. He traces the English law of treason to Roman and Germanic origins, and discusses the development of royal attitudes towards rebellion, the judicial procedures used to try and condemn suspected traitors, and the interaction of the law of treason and constitutional ideas.

Author : Peter McPhee
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300183672

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Robespierre by Peter McPhee Pdf

For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793–94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life with a deep understanding of society and the politics of the French Revolution to arrive at a fresh understanding of the man, his passions, and his tragic shortcomings. Peter McPhee gives special attention to Robespierre's formative years and the development of an iron will in a frail boy conceived outside wedlock and on the margins of polite provincial society. Exploring how these experiences formed the young lawyer who arrived in Versailles in 1789, the author discovers not the cold, obsessive Robespierre of legend, but a man of passion with close but platonic friendships with women. Soon immersed in revolutionary conflict, he suffered increasingly lengthy periods of nervous collapse correlating with moments of political crisis, yet Robespierre was tragically unable to step away from the crushing burdens of leadership. Did his ruthless, uncompromising exercise of power reflect a descent into madness in his final year of life? McPhee reevaluates the ideology and reality of "the Terror," what Robespierre intended, and whether it represented an abandonment or a reversal of his early liberalism and sense of justice.

Author : G. Abbott
Publisher : David & Charles
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781446358429

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Ghosts of the Tower of London by G. Abbott Pdf

Tales of haunting from one of the world’s most terrifying landmarks. The Tower of London’s most horrific tragedies are well known; the gruesome deaths of the two boy princes in the Bloody Tower, Anne Boleyn’s execution, the Jesuit priests and heretics who suffered the agonies of the rack and thumbscrew. Is it any wonder, then, that there are frequent reports of bloodcurdling screams and moans, of unexplained footsteps and ghostly headless figures? Here, recorded for the first time, is an account for all to read—but preferably not at night—when you only think you are alone! Ghosts of the Tower of London is part of The Paranormal, a series that resurrects rare titles, classic publications, and out-of-print texts, as well as publishes new supernatural and otherworldly ebooks for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels, fairies, and UFOs to near-death experiences, vampires, ghosts, and witchcraft.

Author : Ken Gill,Michal Boñcza
Publisher : Young Writers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : 0955822823

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Hung, Drawn, and Quartered by Ken Gill,Michal Boñcza Pdf

Ken Gill was one of the leading lights of the trade union movement in the 1970s and 1980s, becoming the first communist elected to the TUC General Council. However Ken was renowned in trade union circles not just for his politics and commitment to working people, but for his perceptive caricatures of fellow union leadersand politicians with whom he negotiated. This book offers a small segment of history as seen from the perspective of a leading trade unionist through the medium of caricature. The texts and anecdotes accompanying them are only intended as laconic complements.

Author : Catharine Arnold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857201171

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Underworld London by Catharine Arnold Pdf

Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, through to the Gordon Riots and Highway robbery of the 18thcentury and the rise of prisons, the police and the Victorian era of incarceration. As well as the crimes, Arnold also looks at the grotesque punishments meted out to those who transgressed the law throughout London's history - from the hangings, drawings and quarterings at Tyburn over 500 years to being boiled in oil at Smithfield. This popular historian also investigates the influence of London's criminal classes on the literature of the 19thand 20thcenturies, and ends up with our old favourites, the Krays and Soho gangs of the 50s and 60s. London's crimes have changed over the centuries, both in method and execution. Underworld London traces these developments, from the highway robberies of the eighteenth century, made possible by the constant traffic of wealthy merchants in and out of the city, to the beatings, slashings and poisonings of the Victorian era.

Author : Albert Hartshorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : NYPL:33433062139856

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Hanging in Chains by Albert Hartshorne Pdf