Executing Magic in the Modern Era Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in
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 e
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IN THE MODERN ERA
Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine Owen Davies and Francesca Matteoni
Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Series editors Owen Davies School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, UK Elizabeth T. Hurren School of Historical Studies University of Leicester Leicester, UK Sarah Tarlow History and Archaeology University of Leicester Leicester, UK
Aim of the Series This limited, finite series is based on the substantive outputs from a major, multi-disciplinary research project funded by the Wellcome Trust, investigating the meanings, treatment, and uses of the criminal corpse in Britain. It is a vehicle for methodological and substantive advances in approaches to the wider history of the body. Focussing on the period between the late seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries as a crucial period in the formation and transformation of beliefs about the body, the series explores how the criminal body had a prominent presence in popular culture as well as science, civic life and medico-legal activity. It is historically significant as the site of overlapping and sometimes contradictory understandings between scientific anatomy, criminal justice, popular medicine, and social geography. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14694
Owen Davies · Francesca Matteoni
Executing Magic in the Modern Era Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
Owen Davies University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, UK
Francesca Matteoni Pistoia, Italy
Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife ISBN 978-3-319-59518-4 ISBN 978-3-319-59519-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-59519-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017943494 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. This book is an open access publication. Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as |you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this
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