The Trial

With wit, legal insight and a travel writer's eye for detail, this work shows how the irrationality of the past lives on in modern legal systems. It crosses fro... » 

With wit, legal insight and a travel writer's eye for detail, this work shows how the irrationality of the past lives on in modern legal systems. It crosses from the marbled courtrooms of Athens through the ordeal pits of Anglo-Saxon England, past the torture chambers of the Inquisition to the judicial theatres of seventeenth-century Salem. «