The Hanged Man : A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages /

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"Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine eyewitnesses attested to his demise, Cragh later...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bartlett, Robert, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodstock : Princeton University Press, [2004]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hanging.
Executions and executioners.
Examination of witnesses.
HISTORY > Medieval.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Miracles > Histoire des doctrines > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Resurrection > Histoire des doctrines > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Experiences de mort imminente > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire des doctrines > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Examination of witnesses > Wales > History > To 1500.
Miracles > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Resurrection > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Near-death experiences > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Executions and executioners > Wales > History > To 1500 > Case studies.
Hanging > Wales > History > To 1500 > Case studies.
Wales.
Pays de Galles > Histoire > 1284-1536.
Wales > History > 1284-1536.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The story
  • The questioners
  • The plot thickens
  • An Autumn day
  • Death by hanging
  • Time and space
  • Colonial Wales
  • The lord
  • The lady
  • Narrative, memory, and inquisition
  • The new saint
  • Aftermath.

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