Torture / Henry Charles Lee ; with original documentary sources in translation. Introduction by Edward Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909.

Series:

Sources of medieval history

Standardized Title:

Superstition and force. pt. 4. Torture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Torture.

Torture--History.

History.

Law, Medieval.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 209 pages ; 20 cm.

Edition:

First Pennsylvania paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973.

Summary:

This book, published as part four of Henry Charles Lea's 'Superstition and Force', 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. His study suggest that torture occupied a far more complex place in the legal sociology of the period between the third and the eighteenth centuries and the revival of torture in the twentieth century raises once again the question of torture's true place in the realms of law. Lea's wide scholarship and meticulous respect for original sources make this study one of the most reliable accounts of the history of torture available in English. -- Publisher description.

Contents:

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 northern races

X. Decline of the torture system.

Notes:

Pt. 4 of the author's 'Superstition and force', originally published in 1866.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

CJS copy acc.# 201847

Other Format:

Online version: Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909. Superstition and force. pt. 4. Torture. Torture.

ISBN:

081221062X

9780812210620

OCLC:

1083112