Cranioklepty
Subtitle: grave robbing and the search for genius
By: Colin Dickey.
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781932961867
Subjects: Skull; Grave robbing -- History; Grave Robbing -- history; Famous Persons; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Phrenology -- history; Skull
Description: Presents a history of cranioklepty, the desire to possess the skulls of the brilliant and famous, either for study, for sale, or for display. Includes the after-death stories of Haydn, Beethoven, Emanuel Swedenborg, Thomas Browne, and others.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Mapping the invisible; title: The music lover; title: "So was she, so she is now"; title: The golden lyre; title: "All the ferrets were set in motion"; title: "The riddle-filled book of destiny"; title: The new science; title: Skulduggery; title: The brainowner and his skull; title: Fragments of a mystery; title: A city of corpses; title: Scientific Golgothas; title: A measure of fame; title: Some last pathetic quibbling; title: Homo renaissancus; title: Homecomings; title: Rival skulls; title: The ruined bridges to the past; title: Hoaxes and ringers; title: The end of the end of the story.