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Blood Beliefs in Early Modern Europe
Matteoni, Francesca (2010-05-25)This thesis focuses on the significance of blood and the perception of the body in both learned and popular culture in order to investigate problems of identity and social exclusion in early modern Europe. Starting from ... -
Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
Davies, Owen; Matteoni, Francesca (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-01-01)This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and ... -
‘A virtue beyond all medicine’ : The hanged man’s hand, gallows tradition and healing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England
Davies, Owen; Matteoni, Francesca (2015-11)From the eighteenth century through to the abolition of public executions in England in 1868, the touch of a freshly hanged man's hand was sought after to cure a variety of swellings, wens in particular. While the healing ...