Authors: V. A. C. Gatrell
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
A history of mentalities, emotions, and attitudes rather than of policies and ideas, it analyses responses to the scaffold at all social levels: among the crowds which gathered to watch executions; among 'polite' commentators from Boswell and Byron on to Fry, Thackeray, and Dickens; and among the judges, home secretary,