| Description |
viii, 202 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
New perspectives on the past |
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New perspectives on the past.
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| Contents |
Editor's preface -- Introduction: Torture : past and present and the historian -- 1. A delicate and dangerous business. The emergence of torture in Greek law ; Torture in Roman law ; The character of Roman torture ; Roman law and Germanic societies -- 2. The queen of proofs and the queen of torments. The legal revolution of the twelfth century ; The return of torture ; The jurisprudence of torture ; The inquisition ; Torture in the ancien régime -- 3. The sleep of reason. Abolition, law and moral sensibility ; Abolition : the historians at work ; Statutory abolition ; Some comparisons ; The freeing of the law -- 4. 'Engines of the state, not of law'. At the margins of the law ; The police and the state ; Warfare, prisoners and military intelligence ; Political crime ; Law and the state in revolutionary societies ; The discovery of Algeria -- 5. 'To become, or to remain, human . . .' A new Enlightenment? ; The language of Eden ; After Algeria ; Room 101 - and other rooms ; Without end? |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [188]-199. |
| Subject |
Torture -- Europe -- History.
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| ISBN |
0631131647 |
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0631137238 (paperback) |
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