Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population

Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population

Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population

Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial o

The medieval and early modern English imaginary encompasses a broad range of negative and positive dismemberments, from the castration anxieties of Turk plays t