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Torture and the Law of Proof: Europe and England in the Ancien Régime
John H. Langbein
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| #1425006 in Books | 2006-08-15 | 2006-08-15 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.80 x5.50l,.65 | File type: PDF | 240 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A skeleton key for understanding the dark side of our not so distant ancestors.|By Peter S. Bradley|This book is like a skeleton key that unlocks a number of puzzles I've noticed concerning the use of torture in the Spanish Inquisition. In my review of Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics, I noted that I was surprised when torture wasn't used,||
“Like all good monographs, Torture and the Law of Proof not only does what it sets out to do well but points to new directions. It is a concise scholarly work that compares two legal systems with graceful ease and has provocative implications
In Torture and the Law of Proof John H. Langbein explores the world of the thumbscrew and the rack, engines of torture authorized for investigating crime in European legal systems from medieval times until well into the eighteenth century. Drawing on juristic literature and legal records, Langbein's book, first published in 1977, remains the definitive account of how European legal systems became dependent on the use of torture in their routine criminal proce...
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