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Penal Methods of the Middle Ages lists chapters on penal methods, witch trials, and the treatment of the insane, with footnotes for all chapters. The opening discussion distinguishes ancient prisons used for detention from prisons receiving ordinary criminals for definite terms, which evolved in England many centuries afterwards. The account of maimed criminals says that they were allowed at large to serve as living warnings to others.
The discussion of punishment describes a system in which the king exacted punishment and tribute through itinerant judges, sheriffs, and other officers. A footnote describes an inquirer questioning a prisoner with a friend present and obtaining the prisoner's accusation against that friend, an entire stranger.
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- George Burnham Ives
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- Pages
- 88
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