Ordeal By Trial
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Author | : Craig Parshall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780736915137 |
Kevin Hastings is ready to stake out his piece of the good life. The last thing he has in mind is a spot under the Chicago River.courtesy of the local mafia.
Author | : Robert Bartlett |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
An examination of the workings of trial by ordeal from its first appearance in the barbarian law codes, tracing its use by Christian societies to its last use as a test for witchcraft in modern Europe and America.
Author | : George Carpozi |
Publisher | : Walker & Company |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1972-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780802703743 |
A New York reporter chronicles the events of the Alice Crimmins' murder case, bringing into view the extraordinary circumstances surrounding her 1971 conviction
Author | : Caryl Chessman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Biography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004366377 |
Contributions to this Festschrift for the renowned American legal and literary scholar William Ian Miller reflect the extraordinary intellectual range of the honorand, who is equally at home discussing legal history, Icelandic sagas, English literature, anger and violence, and contemporary popular culture. Professor Miller's colleagues and former students, including distinguished academic lawyers, historians, and literary scholars from the United States, Canada, and Europe, break important new ground by bringing little-known sources to a wider audience and by shedding new light on familiar sources through innovative modes of analysis. Contributors are Stuart Airlie, Theodore M. Andersson, Nora Bartlett, Robert Bartlett, Jordan Corrente Beck, Carol J. Clover, Lauren DesRosiers, William Eves, John Hudson, Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Kimberley-Joy Knight, Simon MacLean, M.W. McHaffie, Eva Miller, Hans Jacob Orning, Jamie Page, Susanne Pohl-Zucker, Amanda Strick, Helle Vogt, Mark D. West, and Stephen D. White.
Author | : Vickie L. Ziegler |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781571132918 |
Well after the condemnation of ordeals by the Fourth Lateran Council, the Kunigunde legend preserves the ordeal by fire in a sort of hagiographic amber, much as it was portrayed in the mid-twelfth-century Richardis legend, while Stricker's short secular burlesque "The Hot Iron," written in the mid-thirteenth century, makes sport of this formerly serious legal proceeding, reflecting the almost immediate abandonment of trial by fire as a legal proof in many areas after the council's decision."
Author | : Ken Gross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781386647928 |
The true story of Alice Crimmins, an American woman who was charged with killing her two children who were discovered missing on July 14, 1965. Crimmins trial was later compared by some in the media to the Casey Anthony trial.
Author | : Lucy McLauchlan |
Publisher | : Mainstream Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781840181500 |
Lucy McLauchlan went to Saudi Arabia to work as a nurse, but within months of her arrival found herself accused of murder and facing the possibility of public execution by beheading. Here, in her own words, she tells her fateful story. Lucy and her fellow nurse, Deborah Parry, both signed confessions, but only after being threatened with assault and rape by the police. The Saudi legal system then refused to listen when the nurses tried to retract them. For 17 months they were held in prison in Dharhan. Behind bars, Lucy maintained her sanity by keeping a regular diary which recorded her every thought and mood swing.
Author | : Anne Kerr |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 2015-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191044784 |
This wide-ranging dictionary contains a wealth of information on all aspects of history, from prehistory right up to the present day. Over 4,000 clear, concise entries include biographies of key figures in world history (living and dead), separate entries for every country in the world (summarising key historical events), and in-depth entries on religious and political movements, international organizations, and major conflicts and events and their after-effects. For this new edition, existing entries have been revised and updated to reflect the very latest global events including changes in leadership, wars, political situations, and the statistical information given for each country (population counts, currency, languages, religions). New entries have been included for key figures who have recently come to prominence and world events. The book also contains twenty-five detailed maps linked to key historical events and topics. These include the African slave trade, the Black Death, and the Normandy campaign. Also included are over 200 country maps. The dictionary is enhanced by entry-level web links which are accessed via a dedicated companion website. Encyclopedic in scope, this ambitious A to Z provides an excellent overview of world history both for students and anyone with an interest in the subject.
Author | : Sadakat Kadri |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 030743270X |
For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom–and in this fascinating book, Sadakat Kadri surveys four thousand years of courtroom drama. A brilliantly engaging writer, Kadri journeys from the silence of ancient Egypt’s Hall of the Dead to the clamor of twenty-first-century Hollywood to show how emotion and fear have inspired Western notions of justice–and the extent to which they still riddle its trials today. He explains, for example, how the jury emerged in medieval England from trials by fire and water, in which validations of vengeance were presumed to be divinely supervised, and how delusions identical to those that once sent witches to the stake were revived as accusations of Satanic child abuse during the 1980s. Lifting the lid on a particularly bizarre niche of legal history, Kadri tells how European lawyers once prosecuted animals, objects, and corpses–and argues that the same instinctive urge to punish is still apparent when a child or mentally ill defendant is accused of sufficiently heinous crimes. But Kadri’s history is about aspiration as well as ignorance. He shows how principles such as the right to silence and the right to confront witnesses, hallmarks of due process guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, were derived from the Bible by twelfth-century monks. He tells of show trials from Tudor England to Stalin’s Soviet Union, but contends that “no-trials,” in Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere, are just as repugnant to Western traditions of justice and fairness. With governments everywhere eroding legal protections in the name of an indefinite war on terror, Kadri’s analysis could hardly be timelier. At once encyclopedic and entertaining, comprehensive and colorful, The Trial rewards curiosity and an appreciation of the absurd but tackles as well questions that are profound. Who has the right to judge, and why? What did past civilizations hope to achieve through scapegoats and sacrifices–and to what extent are defendants still made to bear the sins of society at large? Kadri addresses such themes through scores of meticulously researched stories, all told with the verve and wit that won him one of Britain’s most prestigious travel-writing awards–and in doing so, he has created a masterpiece of popular history.