Tyburn's Martyrs: Execution in England, 1675-1775 (Hambledon Continuum) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Tyburn's Martyrs: Execution in England, 1675-1775 (Hambledon Continuum) Book

The early modern execution was far more than a spectator sport. The period between the Restoration and the American Revolution witnessed the rise and fall of execution literature: last speeches and confessions; criminal trials and biographies featuring the criminal as an Everyman (or Everywoman) holding up a mirror to the sins of his readers.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    The public execution at Tyburn is one of the most evocative and familiar of all eighteenth-century images. Whether it elicits horror or prurient fascination - or both - the Tyburn hanging day has become synonymous with the brutality of a bygone...

  • 1847251714
  • 9781847251718
  • Andrea McKenzie
  • 1 October 2007
  • Hambledon Continuum
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 316
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