The Illustrated History of Torture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Illustrated History of Torture write by Jack Vernon. This book was released on 2011. The Illustrated History of Torture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Torture has a way of making the ordinary seem sinister. Objects that are pleasurable or useful in their everyday contexts, have all been deployed with chilling ingenuity by the world's torturers in recent times. This book examines what constitutes torture, the etymology of torture terms and whether torture can ever be justified.
Medieval Punishments
Medieval Punishments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Punishments write by William Andrews. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Medieval Punishments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “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 In the pages of Medieval Punishments are punishments from a less enlightened period, creating a thoroughly researched historical document that sheds light on the evolution of society and how humans have maintained social order and addressed crime.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.
The History of Torture
The History of Torture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of Torture write by Brian Innes. This book was released on 2012-07-18. The History of Torture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 History Of Torture
The History Of Torture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History Of Torture write by George Ryley Scott. This book was released on 2013-10-28. The History Of Torture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Big Book of Pain
The Big Book of Pain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Big Book of Pain write by Mark P Donnelly. This book was released on 2012-01-31. The Big Book of Pain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
