Author: BARTLETT, ROBERT.
Title: The Hanged man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in The Middle Ages.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xiv, 168; 6 pages of b/w. plates, family tree, map, table, notes, index, bound in original black quarter cloth with black papered boards, title lettered in silver on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Princeton University Press; 2004. Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he? While no less than nine eyewitnesses attested to his demise. Cragh later proved to be very much alive, his resurrection attributed to the saintly entreaties of the defunct Bishop Thomas de Cantilupe.
Keywords: history church europe middle ages miscellaneous
Title: The Hanged man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in The Middle Ages.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xiv, 168; 6 pages of b/w. plates, family tree, map, table, notes, index, bound in original black quarter cloth with black papered boards, title lettered in silver on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Princeton University Press; 2004. Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he? While no less than nine eyewitnesses attested to his demise. Cragh later proved to be very much alive, his resurrection attributed to the saintly entreaties of the defunct Bishop Thomas de Cantilupe.
Keywords: history church europe middle ages miscellaneous
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- Book number: 115290
- Book number: 115290