Author : Jonathan J. Moore
Publisher : Metro Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 9781435164703
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 : J Kemp
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781904896081
Author : Lady Lodge Arts Centre (Peterborough)
Publisher :
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 1986
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Graham Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781912740062
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 : 14,5 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781780554778
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 : 27,65 MB
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307819299
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 : J. G. Bellamy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2004-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521526388
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 : Sarah Tarlow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 3319779087
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 : A. F. Murison
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752442530
Reproduction of the original: Sir William Wallace by A. F. Murison
Author : Samar Yazbek
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1473527945
'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.
