A traitor's death? The identity of a drawn, hanged and quartered man from Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire

Lewis, M. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6224-0278 (2008) A traitor's death? The identity of a drawn, hanged and quartered man from Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire. Antiquity, 82 (315). pp. 113-124. ISSN 0003-598X

Abstract/Summary

Analysis of a set of bones redeposited in a medieval abbey graveyard showed that the individual had been beheaded and chopped up, and this in turn suggested one of England's more gruesome I execution practices. Since quartering was generally reserved for the infamous, the author attempts to track down the victim and proposes him to be Hugh Despenser, the lover of King Edward II.

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Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Archaeology Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Scientific Archaeology
Uncontrolled Keywords	Hulton Abbey execution quartering perimortem trauma Hugh Despenser the Younger Edward II LATE-MEDIEVAL EUROPE ENGLAND LIFE
Publisher	Antiquity Publications
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