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Historia de los juicios a los animales

Autor: Edward Payson Evans

Número de Páginas: 127

Historia de los juicios a los animales, de Edward Payson Evans, fue escrito en 1906 y explora uno de los capítulos más extraños de la historia de la justicia: los procesos judiciales contra animales acusados de crímenes como homicidio, herejía o destrucción de cosechas. El autor recopila casos documentados entre los siglos XIII y XVIII en Europa, donde cerdos, caballos, ratas, insectos e incluso orugas fueron arrestados, juzgados, defendidos por abogados y, en ocasiones, condenados a la horca o al destierro. A través de estas historias, Evans muestra cómo el pensamiento jurídico y religioso de la época proyectaba categorías humanas —culpa, pecado, responsabilidad— sobre los animales, revelando a la vez la mentalidad simbólica, mágica y teológica de aquellas sociedades. El libro es a la vez un repertorio de anécdotas extravagantes y una reflexión sobre la evolución de la justicia y la visión del ser humano frente a lo animal.

The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals

Autor: E. P. Evans

Número de Páginas: 366

Reproduction of the original: The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E.P Evans

What the fuck ?! L'économie en absurdie

Autor: Peter Leeson , Peter T. Leeson

Número de Páginas: 191

« Allons, allons, avancez ! Prenez votre entrée pour What the fuck ?! L’économie en absurdie. Cette visite farfelue d’un musée des pratiques les plus bizarres au monde vous arrachera à coup sûr un « What the fuck ?! » Saviez-vous que des épouses « d’occasion » étaient vendues aux enchères dans l’Angleterre du xixe siècle ? Que le « duel judiciaire » de Game of Thrones permettait de trancher les litiges terriens au Moyen Âge ? Qu’aujourd’hui, au Liberia, des inculpés boivent parfois du poison pour déterminer leur sort ? Et que dire du fait qu’à la Renaissance, l’Italie, la Suisse et la France poursuivaient rats, cafards et criquets en justice ? Vous vous demandez pourquoi ? Alors, cette visite est faite pour vous ! Emboîtez le pas aux personnages hauts en couleur de la visite What the fuck ?! Son guide déjanté n’est autre que l’économiste Peter T. Leeson. Déambulant d’une salle à l’autre, vous assisterez à ses échanges débridés avec les visiteurs et découvrirez comment la pensée économique permet de révéler le sens caché de comportements humains apparemment absurdes – y compris le vôtre. Leeson démontre que, loin...

Animal Trials

Autor: Edward Payson Evans

Número de Páginas: 0

Two works separated by a blank leaf (page [106]); the second work originally published as: Modern and medieval punishment.

The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History

Autor: Jan Bondeson

Número de Páginas: 332

In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom. Throughout he recounts—and in some instances solves—mysteries of the natural world which have puzzled scientists for centuries. Heavily illustrated with photographs and drawings, the book presents astounding tales from across the rich folklore of animals: a learned pig more admired than Sir Isaac Newton by the English public, an elephant that Lord Byron wanted to employ as his butler, a dancing horse whose skills in mathematics were praised by William Shakespeare, and, of course, the extraordinary creature known as the Feejee Mermaid. This object became the foremost curiosity of London in the 1820s and later in the century toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum. Bearing a striking resemblance to a wizened and misshapen monkey with a fishtail, the mermaid was nonetheless proclaimed a genuine specimen by 'experts.' Bondeson explores other zoological wonders: toads living for centuries encased in solid stone, little fishes raining down from the sky, and barnacle geese growing from trees until ready to ...

Prolife Feminism

Autor: Linda Naranjo-huebl , Rachel Macnair , Rachel M. Macnair

Número de Páginas: 476

"We need a new way of seeing!" --Jennifer Ferguson, South African musician & Former MP, African National Congress Is abortion on "demand" a woman's right, or a wrong inflicted on women? Is it a mark of liberation, or a sign that women are not yet free? From Anglo-Irish writer Mary Wollstonecraft to Kenyan environmentalist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, many eighteenth- through twenty-first-century feminists have opposed it as violence against fetal lives arising from violence against female lives. This more inclusive, surprisingly old-but-new vision of reproductive choice is called prolife feminism. This book's original edition in 1995 offered brilliant essays on abortion and related social justice issues by the likes of suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer. A decade of activism and research since has made this second, greatly expanded second edition necessary. It not only documents the continuing evolution of prolife feminism worldwide, but more accurately represents the rich diversity of past and present women--and men--who have stood up for both mother and child. It thus is a vital, unique...