The Big Book of Pain : Torture & Punishment Through History
Mark P. Donnelly
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Stroud : : The History Press, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (571 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; 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 Humiliation6 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. - For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deporable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind's very claim to civilisation. The Big Book of Pain is an exploration of the systematic use throughout the ages of various means of punishment, torture, coercion and torment; which takes the reader into the Ancient Roman Coliseum, the medieval dungeon, the Inquisitional interrogation, the auto-da-fe, the witch-trial, and the most horrid of prisons. It is a shocking and compelling study of the shameful methods and
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| ISBN | 0752459473. - 9780752459479
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