gibbeting
post-mortem punishment of encasing a criminals body in an iron cage (gibbet cage) and suspending it from a tall, often wooden, post
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Summary
gibbeting ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,021 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- gibbeting's subclass of is recorded as punishment[2].
- gibbeting's subclass of is recorded as sentence[3].
- gibbeting's Commons category is recorded as Gibbets[4].
- gibbeting's end time is recorded as +1834-00-00T00:00:00Z[5].
- gibbeting's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/026rnb[6].
- gibbeting's described at URL is recorded as https://www.criminalcorpses.com/gibbeting/[7].
- gibbeting's described by source is recorded as The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain[8].
- gibbeting's described by source is recorded as The Technology of the Gibbet[9].
- gibbeting's described by source is recorded as The Landscape of the Gibbet[10].
- gibbeting's described by source is recorded as The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England[11].
- gibbeting's uses is recorded as gibbet cage[12].
Why It Matters
gibbeting ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,021 views/month).[1] gibbeting has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] gibbeting is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]