Picturing punishment : the spectacle and material afterlife of the criminal body in the Dutch Republic /
"Picturing Punishment examines representations of criminal bodies as they moved in, out, and through publicly accessible spaces in the city during punishment rituals in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Once put to death, the criminal cadaver did not come to rest. Its movement through pub...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2021]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Structures of power : constructing and publicizing the New Amsterdam Town Hall
- Procession and execution rituals : moving through the New Amsterdam Town Hall
- Disposal and display : the criminal corpse on the gallows
- Subversion and symbolic transformation : recreation, ambush, and humour at the gallows
- Serving the public good : reform, prestige, and the productive criminal body in Amsterdam
- The transformation of touch : flayed skin and the visual and material afterlife of the criminal body in the Leiden Anatomical Theatre
- The symbolism of skin : illustrating the flayed body.