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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gobin, Anuradha (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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
  • Disposal and Display: The Criminal Corpse on the Gallows
  • Picturing Punishment : The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic
  • 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.