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25%OFFMcKenzie Andrea - Tyburn's Martyrs: Execution in England, 1675-1775 (Hambledon Continuum) - 9781847251718 - V9781847251718
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Tyburn's Martyrs: Execution in England, 1675-1775 (Hambledon Continuum)

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Description for Tyburn's Martyrs: Execution in England, 1675-1775 (Hambledon Continuum) Hardcover. The early modern execution was far more than a spectator sport. The period between the Restoration and the American Revolution witnessed the rise and fall of execution literature: last speeches and confessions; criminal trials and biographies, featuring the criminal as an Everyman (or Everywoman) holding up a mirror to the sins of his readers. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; HBTB; JKVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 34. Weight in Grams: 700. Execution in England, 1675-1775. 320 pages, 8 bw illustrations. The early modern execution was far more than a spectator sport. The period between the Restoration and the American Revolution witnessed the rise and fall of execution literature: last speeches and confessions; criminal trials and biographies, featuring the criminal as an Everyman (or Everywoman) holding up a mirror to the sins of his readers. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; HBTB; JKVP. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 34. Weight: 700.
The public execution at Tyburn is one of the most evocative and familiar of all eighteenth-century images. Whether it elicits horror or prurient fascination - or both - the Tyburn hanging day has become synonymous with the brutality of a bygone age and a legal system which valued property over human life.But, as this fascinating cultural and social history of the gallows reveals, the early modern execution was far more than just a debased spectator sport. The period between the Restoration and the American Revolution witnessed the rise and fall of a vast body of execution literature - last dying speeches and confessions, criminal trials and biographies - featuring the criminal as an Everyman (or Everywoman) holding up a mirror to the sins of his readers. The popularity of such publications reflected the widespread, and persistent, belief in the gallows as a literal preview of 'God's Tribunal': a sacred space in which solemn oaths, supernatural signs and, above all, courage, could trump the rulings of the secular courts. Here the condemned traitor, "game" highwayman, or model penitent could proclaim not only his or her innocence of a specific crime, but raise larger questions of relative societal guilt and social justice by invoking the disparity between man's justice and God's.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847251718
SKU
V9781847251718
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About McKenzie Andrea
Andrea McKenzie is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of Victoria, Canada. She has published numerous articles on crime and print culture in seventeenth and eighteenth century England, and is currently working on a cultural history of English courage from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Reviews for Tyburn's Martyrs: Execution in England, 1675-1775 (Hambledon Continuum)
There are useful chapters on dying speeches and criminal biographies, contemporary theories of criminality, the rise of the highwaymen, and the ritual of execution 'to provide a cultural history of the seventeenth- and eighteenth century gallows and the larger belief system underpinning it'(26).
The Historian, 2010

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