Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, LunaticsPrisons as places of detention are very ancient institutions....
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Author: Ives, George Burnham,1856-1930
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Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

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Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

Dhs. 50.31 Dhs. 25.14
Author: Ives, George Burnham,1856-1930
Format: eBook
Language: English

Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

Prisons as places of detention are very ancient institutions. As soon as men had learned the way to build, in stone, as in Egypt, or with bricks, as in Mesopotamia, when kings had many-towered fortresses, and the great barons castles on the crags, there would be cells and dungeons in the citadels.[1] But prisons as places for the reception of ordinary (as distinct from state or political) criminals for definite terms only evolved in England many centuries afterwards[2]; whilst imprisonment as a punishment in itself,[3] to be endured under rules made expressly punitive and distressful, may be described as essentially modern, and reached its worst phase in the nineteenth century.[4] The Teutonic Tribes of the bays and forests were fierce and free. They exemplified, in fact, the theory of Nietzsche, that liberty cannot be granted but must be taken.[5] They had not cowered before Oriental superstitions,[6] and as they lived in widely scattered hordes a central government could not impose its yoke upon the savage warriors. With the wild clansmen of the fierce Norse nations, where every man was always ready armed[7] and boys received their weapons at fifteen,[8] the great desideratum was the maintenance of peace. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 59520
Author: Ives, George Burnham
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English

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