CONTENTS

      Title Page

      Epigraph

      Acknowledgements

      Authors’ Introduction

SECTION I: TORTURE: MOTIVES, METHODS AND MADNESS

SECTION II: A HISTORY OF TORTURE

    1 Torture in the Ancient and Classical World

    2 Torture in the Medieval World

    3 Torture in the Age of Reason

    4 Reforms of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

    5 Torture Around the World

SECTION III: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TORTURE

    1 Torture by Burning and Branding

    2 Torture by Crushing, Smashing or Breaking

    3 Torture by Cutting, Piercing, Tearing and Impaling

    4 Torture by Restraint

    5 Torture by Public Display, Shame and Humiliation

    6 Torture by Stretching & Suspension

    7 Torture by Water

    8 Torture by Whipping

SECTION IV: CONCLUSION: WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

      Bibliography

      Plates 1

      Plates 2

      By the Same Authors

      Copyright