Torture
By: Edward Peters.
Series: New perspectives on the past
Publisher: B. Blackwell; Blackwell Publishers
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Torture -- History; Torture (International law); Torture -- Europe -- History
Notes: Bibliography: p. [188]-199.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Torture - past and present - and the historian --  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 -- 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 -- The sleep of reason. Abolition, law and moral sensibility -- Abolition : the historians at work -- Statutory abolition -- Some comparisons -- The freeing of the law -- ‘Engines of the stare, 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 -- ‘To become, or to remain, human…’. A new enlightenment? -- The language of Eden -- After Algeria -- Room 101 –and other rooms -- Without end? -- A bibliographical essay.