Destabilising decapitation in King Henry VI
<p>In early modern England, state beheadings were carefully codified, reserved for the nobility and those convicted of treason. The highest and lowest in society were sentenced to beheading: those who headed the nation and those who threatened the head of the nation. Beheading was both a confi...
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University of Warwick
2016
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