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Book The Inquisitory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Pinget
  • Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781564783271
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book The Inquisitory written by Robert Pinget and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inquisitory consists entirely of the interrogation of an old, deaf servant regarding unspecified crimes that may or may not have taken place at his master's French chateau. The servant's replies - which are by turns comic, straightforward, angry, nostalgic, and disingenuous - hint at a variety of seedy events, including murder, orgies, tax fraud, and drug deals. Of course, the servant wasn't involved with any of these activities - if the reader chooses to believe him. In trying to convince the inquisitor of his innocence, the servant creates a web of half-truths, vague references, and glaring inconsistencies amid "forgotten" details, indicating that he may know more than he's letting on.

Book Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia

Download or read book Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia written by Nancy Kollmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a magisterial account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions with informal, flexible practice contributed to the country's social and political stability. She also places Russian developments in the broader context of early modern European state-building strategies of governance and legal practice. She compares Russia's rituals of execution to the 'spectacles of suffering' of contemporary European capital punishment and uncovers the dramatic ways in which even the tsar himself, complying with Moscow's ideologies of legitimacy, bent to the moral economy of the crowd in moments of uprising. Throughout, the book assesses how criminal legal practice used violence strategically, administering horrific punishments in some cases and in others accommodating with local communities and popular concepts of justice.

Book The History of the Inquisition

Download or read book The History of the Inquisition written by Philippus van Limborch and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Correspondence of the Rev  Robert Wodrow

Download or read book The Correspondence of the Rev Robert Wodrow written by Robert Wodrow and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications

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  • Author : Wodrow Society
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1843
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 554 pages

Download or read book Publications written by Wodrow Society and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Interventions in Education Systems

Download or read book Interventions in Education Systems written by David Scott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interventions in Education Systems draws on research conducted in England, Mexico, Singapore and Finland to illuminate reform processes to education systems in a range of contexts, to develop a better understanding of intervention processes and to promote the development of more sophisticated models for reforming education systems. The authors compare policy implementations and interventions in countries with different socio-economic profiles and different levels of development, highlighting how these processes in practice all too frequently are side-tracked and distorted, often unintentionally, by political, economic and social forces.

Book A Companion to the Medieval World

Download or read book A Companion to the Medieval World written by Carol Lansing and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity. Examines changing approaches to the study of medieval Europe, its periodization, and central themes Includes coverage of important questions such as identity and the self, sexuality and gender, emotionality and ethnicity, as well as more traditional topics such as economic and demographic expansion; kingship; and the rise of the West Explores Europe’s understanding of the wider world to place the study of the medieval society in a global context

Book The Criminal Process and Human Rights

Download or read book The Criminal Process and Human Rights written by Mark A. Summers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this work illustrates the two difficulties which the chosen theme poses, difficulties which arise from the confrontation between collective and individual interests. On the one hand, the criminal process is based on the protection of society; on the other hand, human rights implies respect for all individuals implicated in that process, be they victim, witness or accused. A third difficulty arises in relation to the new influence of European law. While the right to judge has long appeared to be the most obvious indication of national sovereignty, it is now subject to supranational control and a State can be censured by the European Court of Human Rights. Part One of this volume analyses the period of reform in various Eastern and Western European countries; Part Two explores the debate among jurists, historians, sociologists and philosophers on the subject of the criminal trial in a democratic society. Finally, Part Three reflects on the issue within the context of the European Community and the European Council and explores the question of a future model for the European criminal trial. Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty teaches at l'Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne and is a member of l'Institut Universitaire de France. She is the editor of The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, International Protection versus National Restrictions (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1992.)

Book Medieval French Literature and Law

Download or read book Medieval French Literature and Law written by R. Howard Bloch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

Book Criminal Justice Essentials

Download or read book Criminal Justice Essentials written by Sue Titus Reid and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated to reflect recent research and statutory changes, the Ninth Edition of Sue Titus Reid's Criminal Justice Essentials provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the U.S. criminal justice system. Represents the most thorough, legally accurate, and best-researched overview of the U.S. criminal justice system available today Anchored within the framework of the legal system and consistently includes legal decisions as a basis for much of its direction Accurately interprets the legal decisions which are cited Features references to current affairs Available in full color, including over 100 color photographs

Book The Wesleyan Methodist Magazine

Download or read book The Wesleyan Methodist Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Inquisition      with a Particular Description of Its Secret Prisons  Modes of Torture  Etc   Abridged from the     Work of P  L       Introduced by an Historical Survey of the Christian Church  Etc

Download or read book The History of the Inquisition with a Particular Description of Its Secret Prisons Modes of Torture Etc Abridged from the Work of P L Introduced by an Historical Survey of the Christian Church Etc written by Philippus van LIMBORCH and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Someone

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Lucey
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-04-05
  • ISBN : 022660635X
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Someone written by Michael Lucey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something? In Someone, Michael Lucey considers characters from twentieth-century French literary texts whose sexual forms prove difficult to conceptualize or represent. The characters expressing these “misfit” sexualities gravitate towards same-sex encounters. Yet they differ in subtle but crucial ways from mainstream gay or lesbian identities—whether because of a discordance between gender identity and sexuality, practices specific to a certain place and time, or the fleetingness or non-exclusivity of desire. Investigating works by Simone de Beauvoir, Colette, Jean Genet, and others, Lucey probes both the range of same-sex sexual forms in twentieth-century France and the innovative literary language authors have used to explore these evanescent forms. As a portrait of fragile sexualities that involve awkward and delicate maneuvers and modes of articulation, Someone reveals just how messy the ways in which we experience and perceive sexuality remain, even to ourselves.

Book Exodus  The Ark

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Chafe
  • Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • Release : 2009-11-01
  • ISBN : 1618247484
  • Pages : 743 pages

Download or read book Exodus The Ark written by Paul Chafe and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gigantic starship Ark was launched on a voyage of ten thousand years from an Earth on the brink of collapse. Its mission was to carry a portion of the human race to a new home circling another star, but, centuries after its departure, the descendants of the original crew no longer remember that they are on a city-sized spaceship, and know nothing of the Ark's mission, nor of the starry universe outside. The Prophetsy, a theocracy based on slavery and terror, has ruled over most of the Ark for longer than anyone now living can remember, and it has just succeeded in conquering the few remaining free regions of the ship. Yet there are chinks in the monolithic tyranny . . . Danil has been a slave since he was a young boy, but his spirit has never been broken, and his keen mind sees ways that the theocracy might be overthrown and envisions new weapons that could achieve that victory. Annaya is the daughter of the Prophet Polldor, undisputed ruler of the Prophetsy. She is far more intelligent and strong-willed than her brother, but only a male heir can become the next Prophet. To her father, she is only a pawn, to be married off to a powerful ally. But she is determined that will not happen, even if she has to somehow overthrow both her father and the Prophetsy itself. Olen, the Prophet's son, is anxious to become the next Prophet. He will cooperate in his sister's plans as long as he thinks they will lead to his assuming the throne and gaining absolute power, but he is a more dangerous ally than Annaya realizes. These three, each with a different motive, will strive to change the course of history for the Ark. But even if they restore freedom to their artificial world, can they discover the nature of that world, and regain the knowledge necessary for the successful completion of its mission? Master storyteller Paul Chafe presents Exodus: The Ark, the gripping second book of the Ark trilogy. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).