Year: 2018
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Despite their relatively small number, the bodies of executed criminals exercised an impressive hold over the imaginations of writers, artists and storytellers. This chapter considers the range of artistic and creative afterlives of criminal bodies. Some criminals and their ends were remembered in anonymous folk ballads or ghoulish stories; others featured in works of published literature or art. The theatre of execution that was so significant in the late medieval and early modern periods remains a popular subject of artistic reinterpretation, as a brief discussion of the film Braveheart confirms.
Source: Springer eBooks
Authors: Sarah Tarlow, Emma Battell Lowman
Institutions: University of Leicester, University of Hertfordshire
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Wellcome Trust
OpenAlex ID: W2804279708