Picturing Punishment : : The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic / / Anuradha Gobin.
Picturing Punishment examines representations of criminal bodies as they moved in, out, and through publicly accessible spaces in the city during punishment rituals in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Once put to death, the criminal cadaver did not come to rest. Its movement through public sp...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 75 b&w illustrations and 25 colour illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Structures of Power: Constructing and Publicizing the New Amsterdam Town Hall
- 2 Procession and Execution Rituals: Moving through the New Amsterdam Town Hall
- 3 Disposal and Display: The Criminal Corpse on the Gallows
- 4 Subversion and Symbolic Transformation: Recreation, Ambush, and Humour at the Gallows
- 5 Serving the Public Good: Reform, Prestige, and the Productive Criminal Body in Amsterdam
- 6 The Transformation of Touch: Flayed Skin and the Visual and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Leiden Anatomical Theatre
- 7 The Symbolism of Skin: Illustrating the Flayed Body
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index