Executing Magic in the Modern Era : Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine

Name: Executing Magic in the Modern Era
Brand: Springer International Publishing AG
SKU: 9783319866437
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ISBN: 9783319866437

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

by Francesca Matteoni , Owen Davies

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife

ISBN-10 3319866435

ISBN-13 9783319866437

Edition Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

Publisher Springer International Publishing AG

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture CH

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 4th, 2018

Print length 118 Pages

Weight 188 grams

Dimensions 15.00 x 20.80 x 1.40 cms

Product Classification: Western Europe European history Social & cultural history Crime & criminology Crime and criminology European history Social and cultural history History of science

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licenseThis book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man’s hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals.

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