Torture. First Pennsylvania paperback edition.
Lea, Henry Charles, [1825-1909]. Peters, Edward, Introduction. Torture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973. First Pennsylvania paperback edition. xxii, 209 pp. Softcover. Light shelfwear and rubbing. Internally clean. $20. * 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.
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