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Author : Leonard Arthur Parry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The History of Torture in England written by Leonard Arthur Parry and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Ryley Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136191674
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book The History Of Torture written by George Ryley Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. Torture, an enduring and seemingly not declining aspect of man's relationship to his fellow man, is an enduring thread through human history. Whether it be practiced by primitive people, the ancient Greeks or the Catholic Church, whether it be ancient China, Japan, 1930's Germany, or Northern Ireland today, torture is alarmingly systematic and consistent in its methods. Impaling, burning, rack or wheel, mutilation, drawing and quartering, burning or hanging alive in chains. A very comprehensive and readable work.
Author : Simon Webb
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 9781526751485
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (514 download)
Download or read book A History of Torture in Britain written by Simon Webb and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2019-10-19 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because torture had been neither endorsed nor forbidden by either statute or common law. In other words; the law has, until the late twentieth century, never had anything to say on the subject. In fact, torture, inflicted both as punishment and as an aid to interrogation, has been a constant and recurring feature of British life; from the beginning of the country's recorded history, until well into the twentieth century. Even as late as 1976, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the British Army was guilty of the systematic torture of suspected terrorists. In 'A History of Torture in Britain' Simon Webb traces the terrible story of the deliberate use of pain on prisoners in Britain and its overseas possessions. Beginning with the medieval trial by ordeal, which entailed carrying a red-hot iron bar in your bare hand for a certain distance, through to the stretching on the rack of political prisoners and the mutilation of those found guilty of sedition; the evidence clearly shows that Britain has relied heavily upon torture, both at home and abroad, for almost the whole of its history. This sweeping and authoritative account of a grisly and distasteful subject is likely to become the definitive history of the judicial infliction of pain in Britain and its Empire.
Author : John H. Langbein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922618
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Torture and the Law of Proof written by John H. Langbein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 procedures, and how they eventually worked themselves free of it. The book has recently taken on an eerie relevance as a consequence of controversial American and British interrogation practices in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In a new introduction, Langbein contrasts the "new" law of torture with the older European law and offers some pointed lessons about the difficulty of reconciling coercion with accurate investigation. Embellished with fascinating illustrations of torture devices taken from an eighteenth-century criminal code, this crisply written account will engage all those interested in torture's remarkable grip on European legal history.
Author : Brian Innes
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 190827395X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The History of Torture written by Brian Innes and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Torture tells the complete story of torture, from its earliest uses right up to the present day, from the tools and techniques used, to the campaigns to abolish its use.
Author : William Andrews
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781620876183
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Medieval Punishments written by William Andrews and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The brank may be described simply as an iron framework; which was placed on the head, closing it in a kind of cage; it had in front a plate of iron, which, either sharpened or covered with spikes, was so situated as to be placed in the mouth of the victim, and if she attempted to move her tongue in any way whatever, it was certain to be shockingly injured. She thus suffered for telling her mind to some petty tyrant in office, or speaking plainly to a wrong-doer, or for taking to task a lazy, and perhaps a drunken husband.“ Dive into the macabre history of England and Old Europe in this treasure chest of historical punishments. In the pages of Medieval Punishments are punishments from a less enlightened period, creating a thoroughly researched historical document that sheds light on the evolution of society and how humans have maintained social order and addressed crime. In a town called Newcastle-on-Tyne, a drunkard cloak was a barrel that offenders were made to wear. In Anglo-Saxon times, each town was required to build stocks to hold breakers of the peace. To the Romans, beheading was considered the most honorable of deaths. It’s these details that make Medieval Punishments a compelling read for social historians and important component of human history.
Author : William Andrews
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1626365172
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Medieval Punishments written by William Andrews and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The brank may be described simply as an iron framework; which was placed on the head, closing it in a kind of cage; it had in front a plate of iron, which, either sharpened or covered with spikes, was so situated as to be placed in the mouth of the victim, and if she attempted to move her tongue in any way whatever, it was certain to be shockingly injured. She thus suffered for telling her mind to some petty tyrant in office, or speaking plainly to a wrong-doer, or for taking to task a lazy, and perhaps a drunken husband.“ Dive into the macabre history of England and Old Europe in this treasure chest of historical punishments. In the pages of Medieval Punishments are punishments from a less enlightened period, creating a thoroughly researched historical document that sheds light on the evolution of society and how humans have maintained social order and addressed crime. In a town called Newcastle-on-Tyne, a drunkard cloak was a barrel that offenders were made to wear. In Anglo-Saxon times, each town was required to build stocks to hold breakers of the peace. To the Romans, beheading was considered the most honorable of deaths. It’s these details that make Medieval Punishments a compelling read for social historians and important component of human history.
Author : Mark P Donnelly
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752482793
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Big Book of Pain written by Mark P Donnelly and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind’s very claim to civilisation. Despite how repugnant the practice of torture appears to us today, for at least 3,000 years it formed part of most legal codes throughout Europe and the Far East. The Big Book of Pain is an exploration of the systematic use throughout the ages of various means of punishment, torture, coercion and torment. It takes the reader into the Ancient Roman Coliseum, the medieval dungeon, the Inquisitional interrogation, the auto-da-fe, the witch-trial, and the worst of prisons. It is a shocking and compelling study of the shameful methods and motives of the torturer and the executioner, and of the heinous duty they have performed through the ages.
Author : David Jardine
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021087768
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (877 download)
Download or read book A Reading On the Use of Torture in the Criminal Law of England Previously to the Commonwealth written by David Jardine and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This legal treatise, first published in the 19th century, provides a detailed analysis of the use of torture in English criminal law prior to the 17th century. The author argues that torture was used more frequently and systematically than is commonly believed, and that it was often employed as a tool of political repression as well as criminal investigation. This edition, which includes extensive footnotes and annotations, is a valuable resource for historians, legal scholars, and anyone interested in the history of crime and punishment. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Ian Cobain
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 9781846273346
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Cruel Britannia written by Ian Cobain and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A award-winning book from an acclaimed investigative journalist, Cruel Britannia tells the hidden story of Britain's secretive and shameful record of torture, for the first time
Author : Simon Webb
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752466623
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Execution written by Simon Webb and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death. Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain explores these types of execution in detail. Readers may be surprised to learn that a means of mechanical decapitation, the Halifax Gibbet, was being used in England five hundred years before the guillotine was invented. Boiling to death was a prescribed means of execution in this country during the Tudor period. From the public death by starvation of those gibbeted alive, to the burning of women for petit treason, this book examines some of the most gruesome passages of British history. This carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to those interested in the history of British executions.
Author : Leonard Arthur Parry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of Torture in England written by Leonard Arthur Parry and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Innes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781590843765
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (437 download)
Download or read book The History and Methods of Torture written by Brian Innes and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the history of torture, including the Inquisition and the witch hunts in Europe, and the efforts of Amnesty International to secure the banning of torture worldwide. Torture-the deliberate infliction of pain upon the human body-is condemned by most civilized countries as an inexcusable crime, but it is still practiced in many parts of the modern world. For over 3,000 years, it was regarded as acceptable and formed a part of most legal codes in Europe and the East. Torture was deemed necessary as a means of discovering truth, and the absence of most other methods of criminal investigation in earlier times justified its use. But crime could cover a multitude of activities that were considered contrary to the existing social order. The Inquisition, for example, established the principle that steadily increased pain would force heretics to confess their sins against the Church, a practice that was extended by civil authorities in the campaign against witchcraft to the point that it provoked near-hysteria in medieval Europe. While torture remained a part of legal practice, the techniques of the torturers-horrific though they were-were subject to a degree of control. But in more recent times, notably during World War II, the torturers have been sadists who derived pleasure from subjecting their victims to terrible suffering.
Author : Daniel P. Mannix
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (869 download)
Download or read book The History of Torture written by Daniel P. Mannix and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Kerrigan
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781862274358
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (743 download)
Download or read book The Instruments of Torture written by Michael Kerrigan and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samantha Priestley
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 152675519X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The History of Gibbeting written by Samantha Priestley and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening guide to the public execution practice of hanging criminals in body-shaped cages as a crime deterrent or religious punishment. The history of gibbeting is the story of one of Britain’s most brutal forms of punishments, the hanging of criminals in a body shaped metal cage as a warning and as a form of justice. From the folklore of live gibbetings to the eerie historical documenting of this weird post-execution tradition, The History of Gibbeting examines how and why we dealt with murderers and other serious criminals in this way. The book uses case studies through history and takes a look at how the introduction of the Murder Act shaped our relationship with gibbeting for years to come, and how we as a society demanded the most shocking post-mortem treatment of criminals. Whether gibbeting was ever a successful deterrent, it is still a fascination today and gibbet cages remain on display in museums all over the country. “I have to say that I was not aware that gibbeting involved metal cages, nor how society clamored for post-mortems on gibbeted victims. Absolutely fascinating, but not for the faint-hearted!” —Books Monthly
Author : Daniel P. Mannix
Publisher : eNet Press
ISBN 13 : 1618867512
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)
Download or read book The History of Torture written by Daniel P. Mannix and published by eNet Press. This book was released on with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torture has been an intrinsic part of the legal process in most cultures for centuries. Indeed, the violence we witness daily in our own society and recent revelations about the continued use of torture, seems proof that inflicting extreme mental or physical pain on an individual to achieve one's own ends is not a taboo practice buried in the past. This incomparable, extremely thorough book — told with a frightening and factual honesty — examines every aspect of torture: professional torturers, theories and techniques, the role of torture in history, moral implications, and the refinements brought to the practice of torture by individual fanatics, religious groups, the military, and, indeed, entire cultures. For such transgressions against society as adultery, heresy and espionage, from the primitive snake pit to the sophistication of brainwashing, there have been literally thousands of techniques devised to distort both the body and the mind in order to satisfy the sadistic needs of those who command, perform and witness human torture. At the time of its first publication (1964), The History of Torture was the most complete repository of information on the subject ever assembled in one volume.
