Torture / / Henry Charles Lea.
Originally published as part IV of Lea's Superstition and Force, this volume is one of the most succinct accounts in English of the place of torture in the legal process from the Roman Empire to the nineteenth century.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1974 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Torture in Egypt and Asia
- II. Greece and Rome
- III. The Barbarians
- IV. The Goths and Spain
- V. Carlovingian and Feudal Law
- VI. Reappearance of Torture
- VII. The Inquisitorial Process
- VIII. Final Shape of the Torture System
- IX. England and the Torture System
- X. Decline of the Torture System
- Appendix: Sources in Translation