Culture
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Funeral Rites and Death-Ritual Practices in Greek Tragedy
Examples of manipulation of the funeral ritual by the Greek tragedians will clearly bring into question the validity of using…
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The History of Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 1736-1951
The history of European witchcraft beyond the early modern witch trials has only recently emerged as a serious branch of…
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The Ordeal of Sarah Chesham and the Myth of Sally Arsenic
Between 1847 and 1851, a series of criminal trials took place in Essex, England, involving a number of women accused…
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Aesthetical Aspects of the Gothic Revival Nature and Beauty
It seems to be suitable here to discuss the historical precedents, the development of the idea, its association with other…
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Female Poisoners in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England Crimes
Three Essex women were accused of poisoning their family members in the mid-nineteenth-century.
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Goth Subculture Victimisation and the Hate Crime Framework
The article will conclude that although there are inherent problems with classifying attacks upon goths as hate crimes, it may…
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Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Contemporary Venice, Rome
The early modern Venetian Inquisition was thus an offshoot of, and theoretically under the control of, the Roman Inquisition.
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The Black Widows Veiled in Their Web of Darkness and Murder
The fascinating phenomenon of the Black Widow, it is worth a brief overview of women’s escalating role in the world…
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The Murderous Insanity of Love: Sex, Madness and the Law
The medical community also supported religious doctrine by declaring that nonconformist sexual behaviour was a form of insanity.
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An Introduction to Framing Female Killers in Contemporary Film
Given classical cinema’s obsession with sexual hierarchy, feminist film critics could choose the somewhat obvious task of amassing more and…
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The Strange and Gothic Tale of Cannibalism by Consent
Suppose that there is a statutory regime that did not punish cannibalism and only lightly punished assisted suicide. May the…
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Transformation of the Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Despite the fact that some critics view the period of the true Gothic as ending in the year 1820, others…
