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15 décembre 2015
- doi: 10.58079/nd8p
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Sophie Victorien, « Pirates and Gallows at Execution Dock : Nautical Justice in Early Modern England (Samantha Frénée) », Criminocorpus, ID : 10.58079/nd8p
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Crédits : domaine public This paper looks at the textual coverage of pirate executions in the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period – we can still see the hangman’s noose at The Prospect of Whitby pub in London. Situated on the river Thames at Wapping this gibbet is all that remains of Execution Dock, the place where English pirates and smugglers were executed between 1400 and 1830 (fig. 1). The « dock », which consisted of a scaffold for hanging, was located near the shoreline of the River ...