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Author Phillips, Patrick J. J., 1961-

Title Medieval Animal Trials : Justice for All.

Publication Info. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (141 pages)
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Summary In Europe as early as the thirteenth century and as late as the sixteenth century, non-human animals including rats, pigs, horses, and dogs were tried for criminal activities. Such trials were not sacrificial in nature; neither were they mock trials for entertainment. Rather, such trials were undertaken with great seriousness with appointed legal counsel for prosecution and defense, at some times before a judge and at other times before a judge and jury. This phenomenon would strike modern sensibilities are being somewhere between eccentric and completely mad, and no one today believes that an.
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Subject Trials -- Europe.
Trials.
Europe.
Animals, Prosecution and punishment of -- History.
Animals, Prosecution and punishment of.
History.
Animals -- Law and legislation -- Europe -- History.
Animals -- Law and legislation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9780773430815
ISBN 9780773418516 (electronic book)
0773418512 (electronic book)