Executing Magic in the Modern Era
Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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...
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Executing Magic in the Modern Era “
1. Introduction.- 2. Criminal Bodies.- 3. The Corpse Gives Life.- 4. The Places and Tools of Execution.- 5. Lingering Influences.- Index.
Autoren-Porträt von Owen Davies, Francesca Matteoni
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Owen Davies , Francesca Matteoni
- 2017, 1st ed. 2017, VII, 118 Seiten, Maße: 15,1 x 21,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319595180
- ISBN-13: 9783319595184
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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