Dead men talking: Truth, Texts and the scaffold in early modern England

Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900: Punishing the English

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 63-84

  Royer, Katherine ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84991242758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230523241     Document Type: Chapter

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