Author: Karen FarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executions and executioners
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Hamlyn History of Punishment and Torture
Author: Karen FarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executions and executioners
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Hamlyn History of Punishment and Torture
Author: Karen FARRINGTONDark Justice
Author: Karen FarringtonPublisher: Hamlyn
ISBN: 9780765199102
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Presents a history of different punishment and torture techniques used throughout the ages, from human sacrifices of the Dark Ages, to capital punishment methods used today
History of Punishment and Torture
Author: Karen FarringtonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780753704400
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Who lived in fear of the inquisitors? What were the hangman's secrets? Where are the most notorious jails in the world? This book contains the answers to these and other questions about punishment and torture methods.
A History of Punishment and Torture
Author: Karen FarringdonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780753702369
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Who lived in fear of the inquisitors? What were the hangman's secrets? Where are the most notorious jails in the world? This work contains the answers to these and other questions about punishment and torture methods.
History of Punishment and Torture
Author: Karen FarringdonPublisher: Bounty Books
ISBN: 9780753707623
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The History of Torture
Author: Daniel P. MannixPublisher: eNet Press
ISBN: 1618867512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
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.
The History of Torture
Author: Brian InnesPublisher: Amber Books Ltd
ISBN: 190827395X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
The Big Book of Pain
Author: Mark P DonnellyPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752482793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
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.
Medieval Punishments
Author: William AndrewsPublisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1626365172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
“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.