The Big Book of Pain
Torture and Punishment Through History
Erschienen am 31. Januar 2012
256 Seiten
978-0-7524-8279-8 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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.
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Sprache
Englisch
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Stroud
Großbritannien
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11,22 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-8279-8 (9780752482798)
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MARK P. DONNELLY and Daniel Diehl are social and cultural historians who have collaborated together on a number of books and television programmes, including the series Tales from the Tower on which their book is based.
DANIEL DIEHL and Mark P. Donnelly are social and cultural historians who have collaborated together on a number of books and television programmes, including the series Tales from the Tower on which their book is based.
DANIEL DIEHL and Mark P. Donnelly are social and cultural historians who have collaborated together on a number of books and television programmes, including the series Tales from the Tower on which their book is based.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Authors' Introduction
- SECTION I: TORTURE: MOTIVES, METHODS AND MADNESS
- SECTION II: A HISTORY OF TORTURE
- 1 Torture in the Ancient and Classical World
- 2 Torture in the Medieval World
- 3 Torture in the Age of Reason
- 4 Reforms of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 5 Torture Around the World
- SECTION III: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TORTURE
- 1 Torture by Burning and Branding
- 2 Torture by Crushing, Smashing or Breaking
- 3 Torture by Cutting, Piercing, Tearing and Impaling
- 4 Torture by Restraint
- 5 Torture by Public Display, Shame and Humiliation
- 6 Torture by Stretching & Suspension
- 7 Torture by Water
- 8 Torture by Whipping
- SECTION IV: CONCLUSION: WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
- Bibliography
- Plates 1
- Plates 2
- By the Same Authors
- Copyright
