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Excerpt from Histoire de Sainte Élisabeth de Hongrie, Duchesse de Thuringe, Vol. 1
Cees, des sculptures en relief mutilées, mais, les unes comme les autres, profondément empreintes du charme naïf et te11dre de l'art chrétien. Il y distingue une jeune femme efi'rayée, qui faisait voir à un guerrier couronné son manteau rempli de roses; plus loin, ce même guerrier, découvrant avec violence son lit, y trouvait le Christ couché sur la croix; plus loin encore, tous deux s'arra chaient avec une grande douleur des bras l'un de l'autre; puis on voyait l' eune femme, plus belle que dans tous les autres sujets, étendue sur son lit de mort au milieu de prêtres et de reli.
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Über den Autor / die Autorin
Catharine Arnold read English at Cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology. A journalist, academic and popular historian, her previous books include the novel Lost Time, winner of a Betty Trask award, and the acclaimed Necropolis: London and Its Dead, Bedlam and City ofSin, the first three volumes of her 'London' series. She lives in Nottingham.
Zusammenfassung
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 con-men, through to the Gordon Riots and Highway robbery of the 18thcentury and the rise of prisons, the police and the Victorian era of incarceration. As well as the crimes, Arnold also looks at the grotesque punishments meted out to those who transgressed the law throughout London's history - from the hangings, drawings and quarterings at Tyburn over 500 years to being boiled in oil at Smithfield. This popular historian also investigates the influence of London's criminal classes on the literature of the 19thand 20thcenturies, and ends up with our old favourites, the Krays and Soho gangs of the 50s and 60s.
London's crimes have changed over the centuries, both in method and execution. Underworld London traces these developments, from the highway robberies of the eighteenth century, made possible by the constant traffic of wealthy merchants in and out of the city, to the beatings, slashings and poisonings of the Victorian era.
