Torture

By Henry Charles Lea

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081221062X
• ISBN13: 9780812210620
• Release Date: May 1974
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 232 Pages

Customer Reviews

A great book for the interested medievalist

This is a great book for someone interested in the role of torture in medieval european law and society. It is not for the torture junkies out there - there are no loving pictures of paraphenalia with tittilating "Oh, how horible" captions. But there is a great deal of data, insight and analysis who the reader interested how the medieval mind perceived torture.The book forms a trilogy with Lea's other medieval judicial histories of the ordeal and the duel. Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in medieval law and its social underpinnings, rather dry for anyone else.