THE CORPSE GIVES LIFE - The Magical and Medical History of Executions
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Online/Live, Activity and Classes
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Tickets from £4.80
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Thu, 23rd Sep 2021 @ 19:00 - 21:00
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19:00 - 21:00
A Live, Illustrated Zoom Talk with historian Owen Davies
The use of the human corpse in medicine and magic dates back to antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, while chemists in early modern Europe profited from a thriving trade in a distillation of human bones as a medicinal cure-all. In this talk on corpse medicine, historian Owen Davies steps forward in history to a medical practice that used the bodies of executed criminals as a source of healing. Davies will reveals how this history of execution, medicine and magic prospers in the age of so-called Enlightenment.
Historian Owen Davies will reveal a panoply of macabre medical curiosities from the trade in human skin as talismans to the history of the healing touch of the hanged man’s hand in England and the rise of blood-drinking at beheadings in 19th century Germany and Scandinavia.
Tickets £4.80 including a 20% donation to the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery.
Owen Davies
Owen Davies is a British historian. He is currently Professor in History at the University of Hertfordshire. Davies's research is focused on topics such as magic, witchcraft, ghosts, and popular medicine from the ancient world to the present day.
PLEASE NOTE - This talk will take place virtually via Zoom. Ticket sales will end at 5:00 pm BST on the day of the lecture. A link to the conference will be sent to the email used at checkout at 3:00 pm BST on the day of the event. Please email suzette@acuriousinvitation.com in the event your link fails to arrive.
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The Corpse Gives Life
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19:00 - 21:00 | £4.80 |
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2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
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6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
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10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
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