An animal trial was the criminal trial of a non-human animal. Such trials are recorded as having taken place in Europe from the thirteenth century until the ... Historical animal trials · Punishments of animals

13 сент. 2017 г. · Animal trials were of two kinds: (1) secular suits against individual creatures; and (2) ecclesiastic cases against groups of vermin.

9 февр. 2016 г. · Legal scholars, historians, and theologians have documented animal trials taking place as late as the early twentieth century and as far afield as Brazil, ...

In the case of animal trials, the abstrusity consists not only of ... The other form of animal trial comprised lawsuits against col- lections of ...

24 сент. 2014 г. · This is Europe's shameful and largely forgotten history of putting animal "criminals" on trial and either executing them or, for plagues of insects, ordering ...

5 окт. 2021 г. · In medieval times dozens of animals were tried in human courts for committing human crimes. It sounds silly, but the practice raises an uncomfortable question.

Оценка 3,9 (11) · 74,95 $ It was first published in 1906 as "The criminal prosecution and capital punishment of animals". It is a detailed study of the extraordinary trials and " ...

There is a long history, primarily from the me- dieval and early modern periods, of animals being tried for offenses such as attacking humans and destroying ...

Animal trials, which peaked in the 14th to 16th centuries, were serious, official proceedings, some of which lasted months and featured respected lawyers on ...

A remarkably detailed piece of research and interpretation, Evans's volume includes dozens and dozens of documented proceedings brought against animals.