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Torture / Henry Charles Lea.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lea, Henry Charles, Author.
- Series:
- Anniversary Collection
- The Middle Ages Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law, Medieval.
- Torture--History.
- Torture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5128-0358-8
- OCLC:
- 979954685
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