Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Dedication
- Introduction: Setting up the Scaffold in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
- 1 The Body in Space: Describing the Distribution of Dismembered Traitors in Late Medieval England
- 2 The Case of the Missing Blood: Silence and the Semiotics of Judicial Violence
- 3 From Augustine to Aquinas: Death, Time and the Body on the Scaffold
- 4 Dressed for Dying: Contested Visions, Clothes and the Construction of Identity on the Scaffold in Early Modern England
- 5 The Last Words of that ‘Cunning Coiner’ Henry Cuffe: Revisiting the Seventeenth-Century Execution Narrative
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Dedication
- Introduction: Setting up the Scaffold in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
- 1 The Body in Space: Describing the Distribution of Dismembered Traitors in Late Medieval England
- 2 The Case of the Missing Blood: Silence and the Semiotics of Judicial Violence
- 3 From Augustine to Aquinas: Death, Time and the Body on the Scaffold
- 4 Dressed for Dying: Contested Visions, Clothes and the Construction of Identity on the Scaffold in Early Modern England
- 5 The Last Words of that ‘Cunning Coiner’ Henry Cuffe: Revisiting the Seventeenth-Century Execution Narrative
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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- The English Execution Narrative, 1200–1700 , pp. 101 - 162Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014