• Introduction: Setting up the Scaffold in Late Medieval and Early Modern England; Chapter 1 The Body in Space: Describing the Distribution of Dismembered Traitors in Late Medieval England; Chapter 2 The Case of the Missing Blood: Silence and the Semiotics of Judicial Violence; Chapter 3 From Augustine to Aquinas: Death, Time and the Body on the Scaffold; Chapter 4 Dressed for Dying: Contested Visions, Clothes and the Construction of Identity on the Scaffold in Early Modern England; Chapter 5 The Last Words of that ‘Cunning Coiner’ Henry Cuffe: Revisiting the Seventeenth-Century Execution Narrative;

'adds crucial elements to historical understanding of the power of the state, the agency of condemned criminals, medieval and early modern popular culture, and especially the intersections of the state, religion and the use of ritual. It deserves a place in graduate seminars.' Sixteenth Century Journal