Catharine Arnold's Books
There are 4 books
1.
Underworld London
Crime and Punishment in the Capital City
By: Catharine Arnold
This edition: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publication date: July 5, 2012
Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and...
2.
City of Sin
London and its Vices
By: Catharine Arnold
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
Publication date: April 28, 2011
If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. For over a thousand years, England's capital has been associated with desire, avarice and the sins of the flesh. Richard of Devises, a monk writing in 1180, warned...
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3.
Bedlam
By: Catharine Arnold
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: August 6, 2009
'Bedlam!' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who,...
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4.
Necropolis
London and its Dead
By: Catharine Arnold
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: March 5, 2007
From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards death and bereavement --...
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