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

Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife

Autor Owen Davies, Francesca Matteoni
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 iul 2017
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license

This 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319595184
ISBN-10: 3319595180
Pagini: 116
Ilustrații: VII, 118 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction.- 2. Criminal Bodies.- 3. The Corpse Gives Life.- 4. The Places and Tools of Execution.- 5. Lingering Influences.- Index.

Notă biografică

Owen Davies is Professor at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has published widely on the history of witchcraft, magic, ghosts, and popular medicine.

Francesca Matteoni worked on 'Strand 4: The Dead Sustaining Life' of the Wellcome Trust funded project, 'Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse'. She has also published in Italian and English on early-modern blood beliefs, familiars, and the use of criminal body parts.

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license

This 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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Provides the first study of execution magic in the modern era Demonstrates how beliefs and practices surrounding executions were shaped by changing attitudes towards capital punishment Explores the connections between criminality, identity, morality, and magical value in society Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras